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HTML
<select>
<option value="123" rel="toggleElem" class="foo" id="bar">Hello!</option>
</select>
<br>
<h3> transformed html</h3>
<textarea style="width:100%; height:100px;"></textarea>
JavaScript
var $opt=$('option');
var $list=$('<ul>');
var optAttributes = $opt[0].attributes;
var listitemAttr={};
$.each( optAttributes, function( _, attr){
listitemAttr[attr.name]= attr.value
});
var $li=$('<li>', listitemAttr).text( $opt.text() );
var html= $list.append( $li).html();
$('textarea').val(html)