jQuery event detection - delete input box text with mouse, drag text to input box

Question

I'm able to detect the cut, copy, paste events with the following code

$('#searchInput').bind('cut copy paste', function (e) {
  setTimeout("handleMouseEvents();", 10);
});

Is it possible to detect the following events

delete input box text with mouse
drag text to input box
drag text away from input box
undo action from mouse context menu or form 'Edit' menu

I tried binding on mousedown and mouseup, but not working

$('#searchInput').bind('cut copy paste mousedown mouseup', function (e) {
  setTimeout("handleMouseEvents();", 10);
});

MikeM · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-09 05:54:47Z

2

I was able to get binding to work for these events cut copy paste mousedown mouseup focus blur

which should cover you on delete, drag out, drag in circumstances but you won't necessarily know that much detail just that the field has changed and which bound event caused the change, I think you'd also have to keep tabs on the current/previous value of the input field between events.

Here's the jsfiddle I was playing with http://jsfiddle.net/9aRxb/1/

answered Mar 9, 2011 at 5:54

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3 Comments

Mithun Sreedharan Over a year ago

Have you checked the demo in Firefox? it is not working in Firefox 3.6.15, but works in IE and Chrome

MikeM Over a year ago

looks like you can bind to several drag/drop events Clipboard Operations for the Web 1.0: Copy, Paste, Drag and Drop. I tested firefox on some of these drop dragleave etc all were working as expected

BobRodes Over a year ago

doesn't work with delete AFAICS. (Right click on selected text and select Delete from the menu.)

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