[javascript] Append text to textarea with javascript

How can I append a list of text into a textarea?

<textarea id="alltext"></textarea>

<ol>
    <li onclick="addText(Hello')">Hello</li>
    <li onclick="addText(World')">World</li>
    <li onclick="addText(Earthlings')">Earthlings</li>
</ol>

<script>
    var Alltext = "";
    function addText(text) {
        Alltext += text
    }
document.getElementById("alltext").value = Alltext;
</script>

This is quite inefficient as the list is actually very long. The text added is exactly the value I see on the HTML so there's no need to type it twice right?

Is there any better methods?

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The answer is


Use event delegation by assigning the onclick to the <ol>. Then pass the event object as the argument, and using that, grab the text from the clicked element.

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}
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  <li>Hello</li>_x000D_
  <li>World</li>_x000D_
  <li>Earthlings</li>_x000D_
</ol>
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Note that this method of passing the event object works in older IE as well as W3 compliant systems.


Tray to add text with html value to textarea but it wil not works

value :

$(document).on('click', '.edit_targets_btn', function() {
            $('#add_edit_targets').modal('show');
            $('#add_edit_targets_form')[0].reset();
            $('#targets_modal_title').text('Doel bijwerken');
            $('#action').val('targets_update');
            $('#targets_submit_btn').val('Opslaan');

            $('#callcenter_targets_id').val($(this).attr("callcenter_targets_id"));
            $('#targets_title').val($(this).attr("title"));
            $("#targets_content").append($(this).attr("content"));

            tinymce.init({
                selector: '#targets_content',
                setup: function (editor) {
                    editor.on('change', function () {
                        tinymce.triggerSave();
                    });
                },
                browser_spellcheck : true,
                plugins: ['advlist autolink lists image charmap print preview anchor', 'searchreplace visualblocks code fullscreen', 'insertdatetime media table paste code help wordcount', 'autoresize'],
                toolbar: 'undo redo | formatselect | ' + ' bold italic backcolor | alignleft aligncenter ' + ' alignright alignjustify | bullist numlist outdent indent |' + ' removeformat | image | help',
                relative_urls : false,
                remove_script_host : false,
                image_list: [<?php $stmt = $db->query('SELECT * FROM images WHERE users_id = ' . $get_user_users_id); foreach ($stmt as $row) { ?>{title: '<?=$row['name']?>', value: '<?=$imgurl?>/image_uploads/<?=$row['src']?>'},<?php } ?>],
                min_height: 250,
                branding: false
            });
        });

Give this a try:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>List Test</title>
    <style>
        li:hover {
            cursor: hand; cursor: pointer;
        }
    </style>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script>
        $(document).ready(function(){
            $("li").click(function(){
                $('#alltext').append($(this).text());
            });
        });
    </script>
</head>
<body>

    <h2>List items</h2>
    <ol>
        <li>Hello</li>
        <li>World</li>
        <li>Earthlings</li>
    </ol>
    <form>
        <textarea id="alltext"></textarea>
    </form>

</body>
</html>