Adding to a HTML text field by clicking items in a multiple select box

Question

I\'m wondering if it is possible that when I click on an item in a multiple select box in HTML that it goes into another form box? Basically, when I click on something I want th

Answer 1

You can do this, it finds the selected options, creates an array of text, then adds it to the text input.

$("select[name=tags]").change(function() {
    var arrSelected = $(this).find("option:selected").map(function() {
        return $(this).text();
    }).get();

    $("input[name=taginput]").val(arrSelected);
});

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/SyAN6/