This was sufficient for my deployment, but for others, it may be worthwhile to launch a confirm window to verify intention. As a result, getData('text/html') will be able to read the HTML we now write. In Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Safari, use the execCommand method with the Paste. In Internet Explorer, use the setData method to set and the clearData method to clear the contents of the clipboard. I then added the listener below which essentially determined if the content was tab-delimited and treated it as a 'Paste from Excel' whereas it treated other data layouts as a standard 'Paste'. I have tried with IE browser i am able to get data from clipboard by using syntax :('Text'). method (clipboardData) Browser support: Retrieves the specified formatted data from the clipboard. The following function forces all cut or. If window.clipboardData is undefined the user received a message saying that you must use the standard CTRL+V paste in this browser. This is supported in most browsers and handler functions can intercept the events to make changes using a clipboardData object passed as a parameter. Users previously used a custom right-click menu to access 'Paste From Excel' functionality to replace content in an editable grid with tab-delimited content from the clipboard.

As Kaiido noted, it is not possible to get at the pasted content outside of the paste event in Edge (and Chrome for that matter).

Clipboarddata getdata