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HTML

<textarea id="foo"></textarea>

<p id="foo2"></p>

<p id="foo3"></p>

CSS

p {
    border: solid thin black;
    padding: 10px;
}

JavaScript

$("#foo").val("Testing");

var a = $("#foo").clone();

$("#foo2").text(a.val());
$("#foo3").text($("#foo").val());