The Clipboard
interface's readText()
method returns a Promise
which resolves with a copy of the textual contents of the system clipboard.
The "clipboard-read"
permission of the Permissions API must be granted before you can read data from the clipboard.
A Promise
that resolves with a string containing the textual contents of the clipboard. Returns an empty string if the clipboard is empty, does not contain text, or does not include a textual representation among the DataTransfer
objects representing the clipboard's contents.
To read non-text contents from the clipboard, use the read()
method instead. You can write text to the clipboard using writeText()
.
This example retrieves the textual contents of the clipboard and inserts the returned text into an element's contents.
navigator.clipboard.readText().then(
clipText => document.getElementById("outbox").innerText = clipText);