How To Get The Value Of A Field During The Paste Event?

I have a text field that I'm binding the paste event to using JQuery. When I first paste something into the form field and log its val() it returns a blank string. Likewise, if I

Solution 1:

It turns out a decent solution is to wrap the callback in a setTimeout(), with a delay of 0 milliseconds, in order to make it asynchronous.

My new code is:

var urlField = $('#url');
urlField.bind('paste', function(e) {
    setTimeout(function() {
        alert(urlField.val());
    }, 0); // note the 0 milliseconds
});

Thanks to DigitalBush's Masked Input Plugin, it uses this technique throughout the source.