Question

Currently the default is to highlight the selected row (when you click a cell in the grid).

But I would like to be able to instead highlight an entire column when it is selected at the header for sorting. Then when the grid is sorted by a different column, change the previous column back to default and highlight the new sorted column.

Would be ideal if it just added a class to the column and then removed it when the sorting is changed to another column.

Answer 1

Well you can find the column by which the table is sorted by checking for:

aria-selected="true"

on the various <th> elements in the table used for the column headers.

Then you will have to look in the table used for the actual result data and do something like:

tr.jqgrow td[aria-describedby="id_of_the_th_you_found_above"]

You see the td elements in the columns are linked to their th element by the aria-describedby attribute.

That should give you enough information to apply a style or whatever to the column you want.