How to get a jqGrid cell value when editing

Question

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).

Answer 1

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;
}