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How do I allow Pasting of data into a web page?

I have a neat little javascript data grid and I want people to be able to paste data into it. I know there are security issues attached to accessing the clipboard, but I am wondering if there is a way to do it. It is by far the most intuitive approach for the end user.

Is there some cunning hack I could do with, say, a text input?

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PASTE in browsers is not data aware. It is text-only. I suggest pasting into a textarea then parsing the data and inserting it into your grid.

Diodeus  2009-01-16 20:42:27

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