JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js"></script>
<h1>Original</h1>
<form id="form">
<select id="select">
  <option value="apple">Apple</option>
  <option value="banana">Banana</option>
  <option value="carrot">Carrot</option>
</select>
</form>
<h1>Saved/ Load via jQuery</h1>
<textarea id="output" style="width:100%;height:400px">

</textarea>

CSS

h1 {
  font-size: 1em;
}

JavaScript

$('#select').val('banana');

$('option:selected').attr('selected',true);



//var formHTML = $('#form').html();
$('#output').val(formHTML)
//console.log(formHTML);