maintained version of free-jqGrid

jqGrid is a popular jQuery Plugin for displaying and editing data in tabular form. It has some other more sophisticated features, like subgrids, TreeGrids, grouping and so on.

jqGrid was developed originally by Tony Tomov and it was available under MIT/GPL-licenses till the version 4.7.0 published Dec 8, 2014 (see here). Short time after that the license agreement was changed (see here) and new 4.7.1 version was published.

The code from the GitHib repository is the fork of jqGrid 4.7.0 - the latest version available under MIT/GPL-licenses. It will be provided under MIT/GPL-licenses.

This fork is primarily focused on accepting contributions, fixing known issues, and ensuring jqGrid continues to support the latest jQuery. There is no roadmap or direction for this project besides this, if you prefer something with a clear direction and focus on adding new features then take a look at the commercial version of jqGrid at trirand.

Below you can find short description of the bug fixes implemented in free jqGrid 4.15.5 (compared with version 4.15.4). The version is developed by Oleg Kiriljuk, alias Oleg on the stackoverflow and OlegK on trirand forum.

Read Wiki for more detailed information about the features of free-jqGrid. The preliminary version of the documentation can be found here.

One can install the package with respect of npm by using "npm install free-jqgrid-fork".

Free jqGrid is is available from jsDelivr CDN and unpkg. Thus one can use it directly from Internet by including for example the URLs like

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/css/ui.jqgrid.min.css">
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/js/jquery.jqgrid.min.js"></script>

or

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/css/ui.jqgrid.min.css">
<script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/js/jquery.jqgrid.min.js"></script>

The locale file is optional. One can, but one don't need to include grid.locale-en.min.js, because the same information is already included in the jquery.jqgrid.min.js (or jquery.jqgrid.src.js).

Remark: the above URLs will be available after publishing the release of the version of 4.15.5.

New main features implemented in the version 4.15.5 compared with 4.15.4:

• Add support of free Font Awesome 5.x. To use the feature one need to include Font Awesome 5.x either as CSS (by including https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.2.0/css/all.css for example) or as SVG file (by including https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.2.0/js/all.js). More examples of the usage will be published later here. Additionally, one has to use iconSet: "fontAwesomeSolid" or iconSet: "fontAwesomeSVG" instead of iconSet: "fontAwesome", which means Font Awesome 4.x.
• Add 3 new option: sortingDuringEditing, pagingDuringEditing, reloadingDuringEditing with values "prevent", "cancel" or "save". The default behavior in previous versions of jqGrid: preventing sorting if the grid is in inline or in cell editing. Including new option sortingDuringEditing: "cancel" or sortingDuringEditing: "save" will allows sorting. The currently editing data will be discarded or saved depend on the value of sortingDuringEditing option. The same problem exists in case of paging or reloading the grid. The options pagingDuringEditing, reloadingDuringEditing helps to specify the desired behavior.

Below one can see the full list of changes in the version 4.15.5 compared with 4.15.4:

• Bug fix in initializing checkbox with stype: "checkbox" in searching dialog
• Add new property states.hoverTh in $.jgrid.icons.bootstrap4 to have hover effect on column headers
• Fix the names of 2 subGrid callbacks in free-jqgrid.d.ts file
• Bug fix in form editing of edittype: "checkbox", formatter: "checkbox"
• Bug fix in resizing of dialogs in Bootrtrap 4
• Bug fix in header grouping in Bootstrap
• Add labelswidth option to Add/Edit form
• Small fixes in the code of inlineNav to make the code more safe
• Add 3 new option: sortingDuringEditing, pagingDuringEditing, reloadingDuringEditing with values "prevent", "cancel" or "save". The default behavior in previous versions of jqGrid: preventing sorting if the grid is in inline or in cell editing. Including new option sortingDuringEditing: "cancel" or sortingDuringEditing: "save" will allows sorting. The currently editing data will be discarded or saved depend on the value of sortingDuringEditing option. The same problem exists in case of paging or reloading the grid. The options pagingDuringEditing, reloadingDuringEditing helps to specify the desired behavior.
• Add support of Font Awesome 5 as SVG with JS. See the commit and another one for more details.
• Bug fix in formatter:"actions" to support frozen columns
• Add title: false property of colModel in template: "actions"
• Small fixes in parsing of dates to reduce NaNs in results
• Fixes in legacy subgrid to allow to use dot-separated names and callbacks in subGridModel
• Add formatted value as additional parameter of cellattr callback to simplify using of cellattr together with formatters
• Bug fix of button size in case of usage Bootstrap 4.x

Many thanks to all, who sent bug reports and suggestions to improve free jqGrid!