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Is there a way to prevent pasting after checking the selection?

I am looking for a way to prevent the user from pasting depending on their copied selection and pasting selection (e.g. stop the user from pasting a column if they copied an entire row and vice versa).

I've looked into the beforePaste() method and other members related to the copyPaste plugin, but I can't find any way to stop the paste.

Ideally, I want the user's selected range to remain the same, but without any data being pasted.

Solution

  • beforePaste is not a method. It's a callback, or a hook in Handsontable nomenclature.

    If beforePaste hook returns false the action will not be executed. Try this:

    hot.addHook('beforePaste', function () {
  if (whatever) {
    return false;
  }
});