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

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.