Don't want to show sorting icon for the first time after page load in jqGrid

Question

I am using jqGrid and loading data through JSON. for the very first time when I get the data I sort that using custom method and pass that data to grid. But it always displa

Answer 1

I searched a lot for the answer on the net as well as on the official site of jqGrid but unfortunately could not find anything helpful.

Now I am going with a hack to solve the issue and that is adding a blank column at the first place and make that hidden.

colNames: ["", "Student name", "Course"],
colModel: [
                {
                    name: '',
                    index: '',
                    hidden: false

                }, { 
                     name: 'student_name',
                     index: 'student_name',
                }, {
                     name: 'course',
                     index: 'course'
      ]

If someone get something helpful then please do post.