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how to remove white space from first and last in react

I don't want any space before the input and after the input like " text" and "text " does not allow so I replace the white space but when we copy "text " from notepad and paste over the input and want to remove the space it throws error like "can not read property of undefined reading target".so how to do like when user give space front and back its automatically replace whitespace

  const handleKeyDown = (e) => {
    if (e.key === " ") {
      e.preventDefault();
    }
    
  };
  const handleChangeWhiteSpace = (e) => {
    if (e.target.value.includes(" ")) {
      e.target.value = e.target.value.replace(/\s/g, "");
    }
  };

<MyInput
                          type="text" style={{width:'240px'}}
                          error={formik.errors.input && formik.touched.input}
                          value={formik.values.input}
                          onBlur={formik.handleBlur}
                          onChange={(e)=>{formik.handleChange(e);handleChangeWhiteSpace()}}
                          onKeyDown={handleKeyDown}
                          name="input"
                          id="input"
                          autoFocus={false}
                          autoComplete="off"
/>
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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using regex the following should work, you can test it at regex101:

e.target.value = e.target.value.replace(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/gm, "");

the cleaner solution would be what sojin suggested

e.target.value = e.target.value.trim()
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report

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Replace

  const handleChangeWhiteSpace = (e) => {
    if (e.target.value.includes(" ")) {
      e.target.value = e.target.value.replace(/\s/g, "");
    }
  };

With this

  const handleChangeWhiteSpace = (e) => {
      e.target.value = e.clipboardData.getData('Text').trim();
  };

To register changes when you paste text inside the text field use the onPaste event

onPaste={handleChangeWhiteSpace}

Final Code

  const handleKeyDown = (e) => {
    if (e.key === " ") {
      e.preventDefault();
    }
    
  };
  const handleChangeWhiteSpace = (e) => {
      e.target.value = e.target.value.trim();
  };

<MyInput
                          type="text" style={{width:'240px'}}
                          error={formik.errors.input && formik.touched.input}
                          value={formik.values.input}
                          onBlur={formik.handleBlur}
                          onPaste={handleChangeWhiteSpace}
                          onChange={(e)=>{formik.handleChange(e);
                          handleChangeWhiteSpace()}}
                          onKeyDown={handleKeyDown}
                          name="input"
                          id="input"
                          autoFocus={false}
                          autoComplete="off"
/>
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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