Question

It seems jqGrid is not assigning any CSS ids to cells by default.

Any tips how to go about it?

I notice I can assign classes per column as per the wiki, but I would like to add CSS ids.

Answer 1

Why jqGrid schould assign an additional CSS class for every cell if jqGrid not use the class? If you need to add a CSS class to some jqGrid cells you can use setCell method.

$("#list").jqGrid('setCell', id, colName, '', "someCssClass");

See modified demo for this old answer as an example.