### [Preventing Copy and Paste Inside Your Form](https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-prevent-copy-and-paste-inside-your-form/)

**Published:** January 25, 2023
**Author:** David Ozokoye

**Excerpt:** In this article, we'll show you how you can prevent copy and paste into your form fields using a small snippet. 

**Content:**

Would you like to prevent copy and paste in your forms? You may want to prevent your visitors from copying and pasting anything into your form fields.

In this article, we’ll show you how you can use a custom snippet to prevent your visitors from pasting anything into your form fields.

**Note:** If there are any options on the **Advanced** tab enabled for the field, this snippet may not work correctly for you. Examples are text or character limits on the **Single Line Text** or **Paragraph** form fields.

## Adding the Snippet

Just add this snippet to your site. If you need any assistance with where and how to add snippets to your site, [please check out this tutorial](https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-add-custom-php-or-javascript-for-wpforms/ "How to Add Custom PHP or JavaScript for WPForms").

```

/**
 * Prevent visitors from copying and pasting in your form fields
 *
 * @link https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-prevent-copy-and-paste-inside-your-form/
 */
   
function wpf_dev_prevent_copy_paste( ) {
?>

**Categories:** Snippets

**Tags:** Javascript, JS

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