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Can you, via JavaScript or such, prevent dragging and dropping into a textarea or an Input with type=text?
Is there a way, to prevent a user from dragging and dropping something into a textarea or an input field with type=text
I've searched around - for quite a while - tried some things I've found but have not succeeded in preventing a drop.
I can prevent user enter in the item by using the onFocus to call blur() but I can't prevent a drop.
I did find an article on MDC but it speaks to configuring your browser, not doing something to prevent dropping on a web page you are creating.
That is at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozill ... support.3f
Another question - is there a way to make an image a drop target? I want to do it to trigger the drag/drop events and then handle whatever is dropped myself.
Another - If a user drags and drops something to a textarea or input type=text, is there a way to cause the dropped text (or whatever) to replace everything that is already in the textarea of input type=text. I've tried a few things but the dropped text is always added to the existing text, at the point the cursor is when you release the mouse button to do the drop.
I want to totally prevent a user from highlighting something on the web page and then dragging it and dropping it into particular textareas or input field with type=text
By default,, almost all browsers let you do this. On a web page with a text input area, highlight some text and drag it to the input area and drop it - the text should be added to the input areal.
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Ah, I'm not worried, at this point, about someone pasting into the field. I want to prevent drag and drop operations - a totally different type of animal.
Besides, I have think I eliminated paste operations by setting the onfocus event to call blur() for the object. You can't paste into something that you cannot set the focus to.
1 Answer
- just "JR"Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Try this (in the <head> part of your page)
<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function()
{
$('input[id$=_re]').bind('cut copy paste', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
alert('Paste Function Prohibited'); });
});
</script>
Google and download jsquery.js at http://jquery.com/
Your inputs with "text" where you don't want copy/paste must have ids of the form:
<input type=\"text\" id=\"email_re\" ... ( _re at the end)
(Sorry, one question at a time)
