Question

jqGrid’s sort icon on the column header shows both up and down arrows. Is there a way to force the icon to show only 1 direction like only allowing ascending order?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Check out the jqGrid Event documentation here. You could define your own sorting by returning 'stop' on the onSortCol event. Something like this should work:

onSortCol: function (index, iCol, sortorder) {
    if (sortorder === "desc") {
            return 'stop';
    } else {
            //do regular sorting.
    }
}

Also if you do this on gridComplete it should hide the descending arrows:

gridComplete: function () {
    $('.ui-grid-ico-sort.ui-icon-desc.ui-sort-ltr').hide();
}