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The other day I wanted to be able to copy/paste files to an HTML textarea. like in Github or GitLab. Since I’m not a frontend expert I quickly browsed to MDN. <textarea id="mytextarea"></textarea> const myTextArea = document.querySelector("#mytextarea") myTextArea.addEventListener("paste", (e) => { let paste = (event.clipboardData || window.clipboardData).files; console.log(paste) }) Even if you didn’t read the doc, you might think that if you paste some text, the files element would be empty....

Background I’m a backend developer. I went to embedded software dev, that all the industry are now calling “IoT”, because it is much more cooler, to SysAdmin, now called DevOps, to backend developper. I never learned frontend dev, I always use all the possible helper builds to help me not do it. But really don’t like this way of using wrapper blindly and not understand what you do and copy paste StackOverflow stuff into my code....