jQuery .val() not working when setting a variable

Question

If i have an input like so:

<input type="text" id="textvalue" />

the following code will change its value:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#textvalue').val("hello");
});

however the following will not work:

$(document).ready(function() {
    var = "hello";
    $('#textvalue').val(var);
});

Why does the second one not work? I need to be able to change the value of the textbox to the value of a variable

Answer 1

Your var statement needs to look something like this

var something = "hello"

$('#textvalue').val(something );

Right now your not actually assigning a value to a variable, and then you are trying to use the var keyword.

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