Question

Is there a way to not display the scrollbars? We’d like to also NOT show the extra space where the scrollbars would go if our data didn’t fit on the grid.

Answer 1

You can set the height and width to 100%, and then the scrollbars won’t appear. They only appear if the grid is larger than the space allocated. To remove the extra space for the bars, set scrollOffset to 0.

Here’s an example grid definition (corrected version below):

$("#myGrid").jqGrid({
        url: 'datasourceurl',
        datatype: "json",
        colNames: eval(json.colNames),
        colModel: eval(json.colModel),
        rowNum: -1,
        width: 100%,
        height: 100%,
        scrollOffset: 0,
        rowList: [10, 20, 30],
        pager: jQuery('#myPager'),
        ...
    }, 

I haven’t tested this, but I use height: 100% for the same purpose… so let me know if you see anything missing.

EDIT: A better definition, and improvement on my json usage – thank you Oleg 🙂

$("#myGrid").jqGrid({
        url: 'datasourceurl',
        datatype: "json",
        colNames: JSON.parse(json.colNames),
        colModel: JSON.parse(json.colModel),
        width: '100%',
        height: '100%',
        rowList: [10, 20, 30],
        pager: jQuery('#myPager'),
        ...
    },