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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

$('.tags_select a').click(function() {
    var value = $(this).html();
    var input = $('#text_tag_input');
    input.val(value);
    return false;
});