DEV Community

Discussion on: 6 useful frontend techniques that you may not know about

Collapse
 
snickdx profile image
Nicholas Mendez

Great post! I cannot think of any use case for disabling pasting other than annoying the user 😆.

Collapse
 
webdev710 profile image
webdev-710

I think it will come in handy later. I will make a note of it :)

Collapse
 
bherrero profile image
Borja Herrero

It's annoying indeed. I've seen it in a form where the user had to put their email twice in order to verify it. So it was twice as annoying as both fields had paste disabled.

Collapse
 
jfullerco profile image
jfullerco

The perfect way to ensure you enter your email incorrectly… twice…

Collapse
 
theanonymouskoder profile image
The Anonymous Koder

Typing helps reinforcing concepts so it can be used in educational institutes and also in cheat prevention systems in online examinations.