onSelectRow fix for jqGrid

Oct 7, 2010 · javascript

I love the jqGrid jQuery plugin. If you haven’t tried it, you should. However, onSelectRow doesn’t work that well. Let’s fix it.

When you look at online demos that describe how to edit a grid row, you may have noticed that after editing a row, you must select a new one before you can edit the first one again.

To fix this, I replaced the original onSelectRow implementation:

onSelectRow: function(id) {
   if (id && id!==lastsel) {
      jQuery('#rowed3').jqGrid('restoreRow',lastsel)
      jQuery('#rowed3').jqGrid('editRow',id,true);
      lastsel=id;
   }
}

…with this one:

onSelectRow: function(id) {
   if (id) {
      if (id !== lastsel) {
         articleGrid.jqGrid('restoreRow', lastsel);
         articleGrid.jqGrid('editRow', id, true);
         lastsel = id;
      } else {
         articleGrid.jqGrid('restoreRow', lastsel);
         lastsel = "";
      }
   }
}

With this tiny adjustment, the grid now behaves a lot more like I want it to.

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