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

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.