IE onPaste event using javascript not HTML

Question

It seems that the only way to add an onPaste event to an input element is to use HTML:

<textarea id="text_area" onpaste="on_paste" />

rather than being able to attach the event handler using javascript:

document.getElementById('text_area').onPaste = function() { alert('I iz in ur textbox, pasting some text') };

The MSDN website says you can only add event handlers for onPaste using jscript or HTML, but I want to do it in javascript. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

Try lowercase:

document.getElementById('text_area').onpaste = ...

Answer 2

It is down to capitalisation, you want:

document.getElementById('text_area').onpaste = function() { alert('I iz in ur textbox, pasting some text') };