Question

I have a jqGrid which has a column called “Actions”. In this column, each row has a number of buttons which are supposed to perform various functions on the data in that row.

Unfortunately, the only grid parameter I’ve found that remotely matches what I want to do is selrow. This gets the selected row. But if the user clicks one of the action buttons, this doesn’t necessarily mean that row is “selected” (i.e., the user has clicked on it previously).

Is there a way I can get the row of the button the user presses? Or does it not make sense to have buttons inside of the jqGrid to begin with?

Answer 1

If you would use for example onCellSelect to detect which button is clicked you will have directly the rowid of the button which is clicked. The answer will get you more details about the implementation.

If you would prefer to implement custom click event handler you can just find the closest <tr> element. It’s id is the rowid of the clicked button. So you can use something like $(e.target).closest("tr.jqgrow").attr("id") where e is the event of the click handler.