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

Before i was getting : html tag of the textbox something like

but Here is the solution to get the value from that particular column, working and tested

function getValue(rowId, cellId) {
        var val = $("[rowId='"+rowId+"'][name='"+cellId+"']").val();
        return val;
       }

var values = getValue(rowId, 'cellid');