How to read the clipboard from JavaScript

Microsoft Internet Explorer exposes the contents of the clipboard to JavaScript on websites. This is a bad thing.

Just another in the long string of examples how Microsoft, in an attempt to get developers on board and build the largest software empire in the world, has made everything easy for the developers, and totally disregarded security.

My personal opinion, as always, is Internet Explorer should never be used.

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3 Responses to “How to read the clipboard from JavaScript”


  1. 1 Elliott C. Bäck

    See, though, the clipboard is useful. If I click on a button that says “copy to clipboard” on a social media site, I want it to work!

  2. 2 adnan

    Some user use clipboard to transfer some very important informations (such us password). this is bad think!

  3. 3 John

    IE7 now prompts users that the webpage is trying to access the clipboard.

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