Question

I have exactly the same experience as reported in the JQGrid forum.

If I copy and paste some text via the mouse into a search field (i.e. right click, “paste”), a search is not triggered. If I copy and paste via the keyboard (e.g. Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V), then the search is triggered.

I.e. it seems that search is triggered on keypress/keyup only – how can I configure the grid to recognize mouse paste events as well?

Answer 1

You have two options you could try.

Option 1:

You could set your toolbar to search on enter only by setting the option: searchOnEnter to true when setting up your toolbar. This will require enter to be clicked before the filter will happen, regardless of how it is entered

$("#grid_id").jqGrid('filterToolbar',{ searchOnEnter: true });

Option2: (Updated to fix errors)

Detect a paste event with jQuery and then call the api to trigger a toolbar search.

var headers = $('.ui-th-column');
$.each(headers, function(index, item) {
     var div = $(this).children('div');
     if (div.length > 0) {
         var input = div.children('input');
         if (input.length > 0) {
             $(input).bind('paste', function(e) {
                  var sgrid = $("#grid_id")[0];
                  sgrid.triggerToolbar();
              });
         }
     }
});

note: it does not appear that there is a way to trigger the search using the new api.