I am working to an application that uses jqGrid. The problem is that the edit dialog that should appear at row edit must have a specific layout. So I would prefer to load it via
My edit dialog had too many fields and so became too high, so I had to put the fields side by side in 2 columns. I did it as follows:
I tried various ways, using wrap(), etc, but found that the values are not posted to the server if you modify the original table structure. So I just cloned the tr elements, put them in new tables, and hid the old ones. I did not hide the whole table, so that the validation will still be visible. I put an onchange on the cloned elements to update the old ones. This works great. Parameter tableName is your jqgrid element id.
var splitFormatted = false;
function SplitFormatForm(tableName, add) {
if (!splitFormatted) {
splitFormatted = true;
$("#FrmGrid_" + tableName).append('
');
var cc = $("#TblGrid_" + tableName + "> tbody").children("tr").length;
var s = (cc / 2) - 1;
var x = $("#TblGrid_" + tableName + "> tbody").children("tr");
var i = 0;
x.each(function (index) {
var e = $(this).clone();
var oldID = e.attr("id") + "";
var newID = oldID;
if (oldID.substring(0, 3) === "tr_") {
newID = "clone_" + oldID;
$(this).css("display", "none");
e.change(function () { $("#" + oldID + " > .DataTD > .FormElement").val($("#" + newID + " > .DataTD > .FormElement").val()); });
e.attr("id", newID);
if (i++ < s) {
$("#TblGrid_" + tableName + "_A").append(e);
}
else {
$("#TblGrid_" + tableName + "_B").append(e);
}
}
});
//This hack makes the popup work the first time too
$(".ui-icon-closethick").trigger('click');
var sel_id = "'new'";
if (!add) {
sel_id = jQuery('#'+tableName).jqGrid('getGridParam', 'selrow');
}
jQuery('#'+tableName).jqGrid('editGridRow', sel_id, { closeAfterAdd: true, width: 800, afterSubmit: function (response, postdata) { return [response.responseText == 'OK', response.responseText]; } });
}}
Call this code in your editOptions as follows:
afterShowForm: function () { SplitFormatForm("SiteAccountsGrid", false); }