title: jQuery to navigate to page in select option
body: <p>I am trying to write a little snippet that allows a user to go to i.e. navigate to) a new url, based on a user selection in an option select control.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  /* &lt;[CDATA[ */
  jQuery.noConflict();
  jQuery(document).ready(function(){
      var id = jQuery($this).val();
      var url = some_Lookup_func(id);
      jQuery("#the_id").change(function () { /* how do I navigate the browser to 'url' ?*/ );
  });
  /* ]]&gt; */
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Note: This is not AJAX behaviour I want, I want the browser to behave as though you had clicked on a hyperlink. I have done this before, but I have forgotten how to do it. I had a look at the jQuery docs, and load() does not seem to do it - because I do not want to place the contents in the current page - I want to:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>go to an entirely new page</li>
  <li>pass parameters to the url that I am navigating to (e.g. the id of the selected item</li>
  </ol>