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

I've got a rather indirect way. Your data should have an unique id.

First, setting a formatter

$.extend(true, $.fn.fmatter, {          
numdata: function(cellvalue, options, rowdata){
    return ''+rowdata.num+'';
}
});

Use this formatter in ColModel. To retrieve ID (e.g. selected row)

var grid = $("#grid"), 
    rowId = grid.getGridPara('selrow'),
    num = grid.find("#"+rowId+" span.numData").attr("data-num");

(or you can directly use .data() for latest jquery 1.4.4)