How can I hide the jqgrid completely when no data returned?

Question

I\'m having a heck of a time trying to only display my jqGrid when records are returned from my webservice. I don\'t want it to be collapsed to where you only see the capti

Answer 1

just a little twist on seth's solution:

1. you can use in place of var recs = $('#list').jqGrid('getGridParam','records');

   var recs = $('#list').jqGrid('getGridParam','reccount');

   jqGrid grid option 'records' default value = 'None'

   jqGrid grid option 'reccount' defaults to 0 and will always return a number even when there are no records (returns 0)

   see wiki:options @ jqGrid Wiki

2. If you don't want to use a wrapping div you can hide the whole jqGrid using $('.ui-jqgrid').hide() or $('.ui-jqgrid').show().

   The ui-jqgrid class is only used for the jqGrid parent.