Question

What I’m trying to achieve is simple. I just don’t know the jQuery lingo’ to make it happen. I want to be able to click on a link, and the link output exactly what “the link” is into a text field. I imagine it’d go something like this:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $('a.text-display').click(function(){
    "copy that link text and display it in a textbox"
   });
});

Answer 1

Almost there:

$(document).ready(function(){

    $('a.text-display').click(function(e){
        e.preventDefault(); //don't follow the link
        var linkText = $(this).text();
        $('#mytextfield').val(function(index, oldValue) {return oldValue + ' ' + linkText } ); //add the text to the current value of the textfield (input text)
    });
});