paste

This is a quick blog post, mostly for my own reference.

I finally got sick of a certain government website thinking that preventing pasting passwords into certain forms was some sort of security feature, so I am documenting my workaround in Safari for stupid forms written by compliance-minded folks (the same who think that expiring passwords every 30 days leads to any kind of better security).

In Safari, select Develop > Show Javascript Console (or press ⌥⌘C, that's Option + Command + 'C')¹.

Paste the following into the console and press 'Enter':

var allowPaste = function(e){
  e.stopImmediatePropagation();
  return true;
};
document.addEventListener('paste', allowPaste, true);

Now you can paste to your heart's content.

¹ If you don’t see the Develop menu in the menu bar, choose Safari > Preferences, click Advanced, then select “Show Develop menu in menu bar.”