Question

The img below describes what I am trying to do:

So when an entry from the select list is selected and button “Copy” is pressed, it will add an < li > element to the text area.

Any ideas, resources?

Answer 1

When the button is clicked you can just read the selected option using jQuery and add it to the text area.

HTML

<select id="selectBox">
    <option>option 1</option>
    <option>option 2</option>
    <option>option 3</option>
</select>

<input id="copyBtn" type="button" value="copy" />

<textarea id="output">
    This is some intro text
</textarea>​

jQuery

$("#copyBtn").click(function(){
    var selected = $("#selectBox").val();
    $("#output").append("\n * " + selected);
});​

You can only add text to a textarea, it doesn’t render html tags (so a list inside it won’t work). I used \n to create newlines.

Fiddle

Here’s a working fiddle