Pass selected value to function using jquery selector

Question

I am a new jquery/js user trying to pass an argument from a selector to a function. Here is some of the code: ``` // function to select data var data = [ {val: 10, year: 1990}, {val: 20, year: 1991} ] var year_data = [] function select_year_data(y) { year_data = data.filter(function(d) {return d.year==y}) } ``` // Selector ``` ``` What I would like to do is something like this: ``` select_year_data($('#year_menu.val()') ``` But I know that isn't quite right.

Accepted Answer

Jquery change method can be used here Change()

```
$(function()
{
  $('#year_menu').change(function(){
      select_year_data($(this).val())
  });
});
```

Pass selected value to function using jquery selector

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