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HTML
<input id="text_tag_input" type="text" name="tags" />
<div class="tags_select">
<a href="#">text1</a>
<a href="#">text2</a>
<a href="#">text3</a>
</div>
JavaScript
$('a').click(function(){
$('#text_tag_input').val($('#text_tag_input').val()+$(this).html()+', ');
});