ClipboardEvent

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

See full compatibility

The ClipboardEvent interface of the Clipboard API represents events providing information related to modification of the clipboard, that is cut, copy, and paste events.

Constructor

ClipboardEvent(): Creates a ClipboardEvent event with the given parameters.

Instance properties

Also inherits properties from its parent Event.

ClipboardEvent.clipboardData Read only: A DataTransfer object containing the data affected by the user-initiated cut, copy, or paste operation, along with its MIME type.

Instance methods

No specific methods; inherits methods from its parent Event.

Specifications

Specification
Clipboard API and events # clipboard-event-interfaces

Browser compatibility

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`ClipboardEvent`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 41 (Release date: 2015-03-03) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 22 (Release date: 2013-06-25) footnote footnote When pasting multiple files, only returns the first file. See bug 1954680. footnote Before Firefox 140, when pasting multiple files, and the first file was not acceptable, returned no file. See bug 1961170.	Opera – Full support Opera 28 (Release date: 2015-03-10) footnote Full support	Safari – Full support Safari 10.1 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 41 (Release date: 2015-03-11) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 22 (Release date: 2013-06-25) footnote footnote When pasting multiple files, only returns the first file. See bug 1954680. footnote Before Firefox for Android 140, when pasting multiple files, and the first file was not acceptable, returned no file. See bug 1961170.	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 28 (Release date: 2015-03-10) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 4 (Release date: 2016-03-11) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 41 (Release date: 2015-03-11) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – Full support WebView on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support
`ClipboardEvent()` constructor	Chrome – Full support Chrome 58 (Release date: 2017-04-19) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 17 (Release date: 2018-04-30) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 22 (Release date: 2013-06-25) footnote Full support	Opera – Full support Opera 45 (Release date: 2017-05-10) footnote Full support	Safari – Full support Safari 10.1 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 58 (Release date: 2017-04-25) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 22 (Release date: 2013-06-25) footnote Full support	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 43 (Release date: 2017-09-27) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 7 (Release date: 2018-03-16) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 58 (Release date: 2017-04-25) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – Full support WebView on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support
`clipboardData`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 41 (Release date: 2015-03-03) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 22 (Release date: 2013-06-25) footnote Full support	Opera – Full support Opera 28 (Release date: 2015-03-10) footnote Full support	Safari – Full support Safari 10.1 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 41 (Release date: 2015-03-11) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 22 (Release date: 2013-06-25) footnote Full support	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 28 (Release date: 2015-03-10) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 4 (Release date: 2016-03-11) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 41 (Release date: 2015-03-11) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – Full support WebView on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support

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Full support: Full support
: See implementation notes.