How to paste text from clipboard on click?

Question

JavaScript

There is, for example, the following code:

html:

<div id="txt" contenteditable="true"></div>
<button id="btn">Click</button>

css:

#txt {
    height: 30px;
    border: 1px dashed grey;
}

js:

$('#btn').on('click',function() {
  var pastetext = clipboardData.getData("text/html");
    $('#txt').html(pastetext);
});

How to paste text from clipboard on button click?

PS But, basically, I need to put the text from the buffer into a variable)))

Answer 1

No way.