I developed AJAX interface with jQuery and jqGrid.
How I can remove horizontal scrollbar from my jqGrid table?
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setGridWidth will definitely resize your grid to that of the given new width, but make sure you use it with autowidth=true. setGridWidth may have problem with IE 7 or so.
Some working solutions discussed here (in case if you are yet to find a solution),
Resize jqGrid when browser is resized?
http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/discussion/browser-resize-how-to-resize-jqgrid/
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There are couple of options you can try,
From http://www.trirand.com/jqgridwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:options
"autowidth" : true
or
"shrinkToFit": false
Otherwise post your jqgrid code, let us analyze.