How to get a jqGrid cell value when editing

How to get a jqGrid cell value when in-line editing (getcell and getRowData returns the cell content and not the actuall value of the input element).

General function to get value of cell with given row id and cell id

Create in your js code function:

function getCellValue(rowId, cellId) {
    var cell = jQuery('#' + rowId + '_' + cellId);        
    var val = cell.val();
    return val;
}

Example of use:

var clientId = getCellValue(15, 'clientId');

Dodgy, but works.

Here is an example of basic solution with a user function.

    ondblClickRow: function(rowid) {
        var cont = $('#grid').getCell(rowid, 'MyCol');
        var val = getCellValue(cont);
    }

...

function getCellValue(content) {
    var k1 = content.indexOf(' value=', 0);
    var k2 = content.indexOf(' name=', k1);
    var val = '';
    if (k1 > 0) {
        val = content.substr(k1 + 7, k2 - k1 - 6);
    }
    return val;
}

After many hours grief I found this to be the simplest solution. Call this before fetching the row data:

$('#yourgrid').jqGrid("editCell", 0, 0, false);

It will save any current edit and will not throw if there are no rows in the grid.

As you stated, according to the jqGrid documentation for getCell and getRowData:

Do not use this method when you editing the row or cell. This will return the cell content and not the actual value of the input element

Since neither of these methods will return your data directly, you would have to use them to return the cell content itself and then parse it, perhaps using jQuery. It would be nice if a future version of jqGrid could provide a means to do some of this parsing itself, and/or provide an API to make it more straightforward. But on the other hand is this really a use case that comes up that often?

Alternatively, if you can explain your original problem in more detail there may be other options.

Try this, it will give you particular column's value

onSelectRow: function(id) {
    var rowData = jQuery(this).getRowData(id); 
    var temp= rowData['name'];//replace name with you column
    alert(temp);
}