How to Disable Ctrl+V (Paste) in JavaScript?

Last Updated : 08 May, 2024

What is Ctrl + V ?

The ctrl+V is a keyboard shortcut used to paste anything from anywhere. It can be disabled for a particular task or page. Let's see how to disable cut, copy, paste, and right-click.

To disable the ctrl+V (paste) keyboard shortcut in JavaScript, you would typically capture the keydown event and prevent the default behavior if the ctrl key and V key are pressed simultaneously.

Below are the approaches to disable Ctrl+V in JavaScript:

Table of Content

Approach 1: Using JQuery
Approach 2: Using EventListner

Using JQuery

JQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It simplifies tasks like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and AJAX.

Syntax :

$(document).ready(function(){
   $('#txtInput').on("paste",function(e) {
      e.preventDefault();
   });
});

Explanation:

$(document).ready(function(){...}): This is a jQuery shorthand for the document ready event handler. It ensures that the code inside the function is executed when the DOM is fully loaded and ready to be manipulated.
$('#txtInput'): This selects an element with the ID txtInput.
.on("cut copy paste", function(e) {...}): This attaches event handlers to the specified events - paste.
function(e) {...}: This is the callback function that gets executed when the paste event occured.
e.preventDefault();: This line prevents the default behavior of the event. In this case, it prevents the default behavior of the paste.

Example: Below is an example of disabling ctrl+v in javascript using JQuery.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" 
          content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Disable Paste</title>
    <script src=
"https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js">
      </script>
    <script>
        $(document).ready(function () {
            $('#txtInput2').on("paste", function (e) {
                e.preventDefault();
                alert("Paste functionality disabled.");
            });
        });
    </script>
</head>

<body>
    <h1>Try to Paste This</h1>
    <input type="text" id="txtInput1" 
           placeholder="Paste Is Enabled">
    <br>
    <br>
    <input type="text" id="txtInput2" 
           placeholder="Paste Is Disabled">

</body>

</html>

Output: In this Example it will show a alert - Paste functionality disabled

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Using EventListner

An EventListener in JavaScript waits for a specified event, like a click or key press, on a DOM element and triggers a function to execute in response to that event.

Syntax:

const inputField = document.getElementById('email'); // fetch Id of Inputfield
inputField.addEventListener('paste', e => e.preventDefault());

Example: Below is an example of disabling ctrl+v in javascript using EventListner.