title: assign jquery variable to input
body: <p>I am trying to pass jquery variable value to input text. I tried the below and getting message "The left-hand side of an assignment must be a variable". How to send jquery variable value to input box?</p>
  
  <p>//Input is as below</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input  type="hidden" id="rowValues" value="" name="rowValues"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>//jquery is as below. rowData variable value should be passed to input </p>
  
  <pre><code> var rowData = JSON.stringify(rows); ; 
  
  $("#rowValues").val() = rowData; 
  </code></pre>