Remove characters in textarea at the time of pasting text

Question

Whenever i paste text in textarea , it should strip the character like <,>,@ etc. i try in JQuery

$('input').on('paste', function () { var element = this; setTimeout(function () { var text = $(element).val(); // do something with text }, 100); });

 $('input').on('paste', function () { var element = this; setTimeout(function () { var text = $(element).val(); text.replace('<', '') ); }, 100); }); 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <textarea id="test" name="test" style="height:300px; width:400px"></textarea> 

Answer 1

You are using input element selector which matches only elements with tagname as input like <input type="..." /> , instead of textarea so

 $('textarea').on('paste', function() { var $el = $(this); setTimeout(function() { $el.val(function(i, val) { return val.replace(/[<>@]/g, '') }) }) }); 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <textarea id="test" name="test" style="height:300px; width:400px"></textarea>