Paste multiline text into several input fields

Iver Erling Årva

I am looking for a way to let the users copy e.g. a multi-line address from
a textfile and paste it into a webpage where there is one input field for
each address line in such a way that not only the first line is pasted, but
instead the program automatically jumps to the next field and put line 2 in
there and so on.

Can this be done? I tried with onkeydown to check for event.keyCode == 13,
but it doesn't seem to work with paste.

Brgds
iv**@tda.no

Oct 2 '05 #1

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slyi

you could put an onchange event on your top input box and use the split
function on each '\n' (if exists inside the pasted text) and loop
through your splited text array and place the element text into each of
your input boxs.

Oct 2 '05 #2

Iver Erling Årva

That doesn't seem to work unfortunately, as the pasted text seem to have
been stripped for anything after the first \n at that point... I need a way
to pick up the entire text from the clipboard prior to the actual paste.e.g.
when the ctrl-v is pressed.
"slyi" <ad******@gmail .com> skrev i melding
news:11******** **************@ z14g2000cwz.goo glegroups.com.. .

you could put an onchange event on your top input box and use the split
function on each '\n' (if exists inside the pasted text) and loop
through your splited text array and place the element text into each of
your input boxs.

Oct 2 '05 #3

slyi

try
<html >
<head>
<title>Untitl ed Page</title>
<script language="javas cript">
function pasteall(){
allrows = window.clipboar dData.getData(' Text').split('\ n');
for (var i=0;i<allrows.l ength;i++){
textrow='Text'+ (i+1);
document.getEle mentById(textro w).innerText=al lrows[i]

}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type=text id="Text1" onpaste="pastea ll()" />
<br />
<input id="Text2" type="text" />
<br />
<input id="Text3" type="text" />
<br />
<input id="Text4" type="text" />

</body>
</html>

Oct 2 '05 #4

slyi

BTW if replace \n with \t you should be able copy to each cell on
single row

Oct 2 '05 #5

Iver Erling Årva

Figured it out. The following seem to work ok ;-)
iv**@tda.no

<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<script type=text/javascript>
function chkKey(){
tb = document.all["tb"]
var cbdata=window.c lipboardData.ge tData("text");
cbd=cbdata.spli t("\n");
for (i=1;i<cbd.leng th;i++){
if (tb[i]) tb[i].value=cbd[i];
}
}
</script>
</head>

<body onload="form.T1 .focus();">
<form name='form'>
<p>
<input id="tb" type="text" name="T1" size="20" onbeforepaste=' chkKey();'>
<input id="tb" type="text" name="T2" size="20">
<input id="tb" type="text" name="T3" size="20">
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Oct 2 '05 #6

McA

you could put an onchange event on your top input box and use the split
function on each '\n' (if exists inside the pasted text) and loop
through your splited text array and place the element text into each of
your input boxs.

IE and Mozilla don't allow to paste multiline text in to regular input
field, if you do so, only first line will be inserted. Opera puts the whole
multiline string in, but replaces newline symbol(s) with two char 32.
I suggest to use textarea element istead first input.

Oct 2 '05 #7

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