jQuery attribute selector variable

Question

I have a selectbox with several options - each of these option values correspond to a \"value\" attribute on some images below. The functionality I want is when selectbox va

Answer 1

Prior to jQuery 1.7

The following will work:

$('.tabContent img[value='+selectboxvalue+']').css({border: '1px solid #c10000'});

jQuery 1.7 and later

In 1.7 jQuery changed the syntax to require the attributes to have quotation around the value:

$('.tabContent img[value="'+selectboxvalue+'"]').css({border: '1px solid #c10000'});