How to Prevent Pasting into an Input
Every once in a while I get to a website that doesn't allow me to paste into a form input. In most cases it's something to do with login credentials (username and or password) and auth codes. So how are they preventing me from pasting information? It's as easy as you'd think!
Let's start with the input element:
<input type="text" onpaste="return false;" ondrop="return false;" autocomplete="off" />
The onpaste attribute lets us prevent pasting into the form. Adding the autocomplete attribute as well as preventing drag and drop into the element. If you want to avoid the on{event} code in the HTML, you can do it the cleaner way:
myElement.addEventListener('paste', e => e.preventDefault());
Writing this post pains me because I loathe when websites prevent me from pasting text. I'm begging you not to do this. Just don't.
![An Interview with Eric Meyer]()
Your early CSS books were instrumental in pushing my love for front end technologies. What was it about CSS that you fell in love with and drove you to write about it?
At first blush, it was the simplicity of it as compared to the table-and-spacer...
![5 HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed]()
When you say or read "HTML5", you half expect exotic dancers and unicorns to walk into the room to the tune of "I'm Sexy and I Know It." Can you blame us though? We watched the fundamental APIs stagnate for so long that a basic feature...
![Sexy Link Transformations with CSS]()
I was recently visiting MooTools Developer Christoph Pojer's website and noticed a sexy link hover effect: when you hover the link, the the link animates and tilts to the left or the right. To enhance the effect, the background color of the link is...
![Vertically Centering with Flexbox]()
Vertically centering sibling child contents is a task we've long needed on the web but has always seemed way more difficult than it should be. We initially used tables to accomplish the task, then moved on to CSS and JavaScript tricks because table layout was horribly...
So am I able to edit the locally stored js file to re-enable pasting until I reload the page?
Thanks a lot for sharing this. It was really needed as I don’t like to write passwords and username again and again.