How to enable jQgrid to Export data into PDF/Excel

Question

I am new in jQuery/jQgrid coding. I am using jQgrid version is 4.4.4 & jQuery 1.8.3. I want to enable export to PDF/EXCEL functionality in my jQgrid. For that I referred

Answer 1

Here is a clever solution to save the jqGrid data as excel sheet: (You just need to call this function with GridID and an optional Filename)

var createExcelFromGrid = function(gridID,filename) {
    var grid = $('#' + gridID);
    var rowIDList = grid.getDataIDs();
    var row = grid.getRowData(rowIDList[0]); 
    var colNames = [];
    var i = 0;
    for(var cName in row) {
        colNames[i++] = cName; // Capture Column Names
    }
    var html = "";
    for(var j=0;j

We first create a CSV string delimited with ;. Then an anchor tag is created with certain attributes. Finally click is called on a to download the file.