Question

I am using jqGrid inline editing with validation in grid using edit rules for adding and updating values to the DB.

The problem is alert for validation fail comes after the values are submitted to the server

    colModel: [
     {name: 'Country', 
     index: 'Country', 
  editable: true, 
  edittype: 'text',
  sortable: false, 
     align: 'left', 
    search: false,
validation: { required: true }}
    ],

Answer 1

There are no validation property for items from colModel. You should use correct name of the property editrules:

editrules: { required: true }

Moreover you can remove unneeded properties edittype: 'text' and align: 'left' (see default values in the documentation). Because the value of index property is the same as the value of name you can remove it too.