February 2011 Entries

jqGrid - customizing the multi-select option (restrict single selection and adding custom events)

Goal: Using the jgGrid to enable a selection of a checkbox for row selection - which is easy to set in the jqGrid - but also only allowing a single row to be selectable at a time while adding events based on whether the row was selected or de-selected. Environment: jQuery 1.4.4 jqGrid 3.4.4a Issue: The jqGrid does not support the option to restrict the multi-select to only allow for a single selection. You may ask, why bother with the multi-select checkbox function if you only want to allow for the ......

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Posted On Friday, February 25, 2011 8:45 AM | Comments (4)

Menu widget - no jQuery nor Javascript required - pure CSS

Goal: Create a menu widget that does not require any javascript, extremely lightweight, very fast, soley based on CSS, compatible with FireFox and Chrome. Issues: May have some rendering issues in some versions of IE, sorry :-) Instruments: css file html with specific menu format jQuery-ui library - optional if you want to use your own images/colors Implementation Details: HTML: <div id="header"> <div id="header_Menubar"> <ul class="linkList0 ui-tabs-nav ui-helper-reset ui-helper-clearfix ......

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Posted On Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:19 AM | Comments (1)

jqGrid - dynamically load different drop down values for different rows depending on another column value

Goal: As we all know the jqGrid examples in the demo and the Wiki always refer to static values for drop down boxes. This of course is a personal preference but in dynamic design these values should be populated from the database/xml file, etc, ideally JSON formatted. Can you do this in jqGrid, yes, but with some custom coding which we will briefly show below (refer to some of my other blog entries for a more detailed discussion on this topic). What you CANNOT do in jqGrid, referring here up and ......