Is it possible to Stop jqGrid row(s) from being selected and/or highlighted?

Question

I've looked at the documentation but I've been unable to find an answer. Is there a way to prevent a row from being highlighted when selected? That or even a way to stop the row being selected at all. I like the "hoverrows: true" option, but ideally I would like to stop a row from being selected on-click.

Thanks,

Update: I've been able to "hackily" implement something which seems to be an interim fix. I don't really like it at all and would idealy like a better solution, if there is one...

I have found that if I pass the option

onSelectRow: function(rowid, status) {
    $('#'+rowid).removeClass('ui-state-highlight');
}

when I instantiate the jqGrid, I can strip the highlight when it is added.

Is there another, more ideal, way to do this?

Grackle

Just curious: All rows, rows meeting a specific criteria (i.e., "odd" rows), or a specific single row? – Bacchae

any row which is clicked on. the natural behavior of jqGrid is to apply the css class ui-state-highlight to a row, when it is clicked. I wish to stop this. – Grackle

Answer 1

Use the following code:

beforeSelectRow: function(rowid, e) {
    return false;
}

Pullen

Perfect! This is exactly the way I was trying to do it, I just couldn't find the right event to hook off. Thanks. – Grackle

Also be sure to match casing. beforeselectrow does not work. – Suck

What sucks about using this implementation you then disable onCellSelect :( – Aikido

It doesn't gray out the row, just stops the selection. Added a better and easier answer below using the rowattr callback instead of the beforeSelectRow callback. – Measly

Answer 2

If you, like me, have a gazillion jqGrids and don't want to override onSelectRow for every single one, here's a global version of Reigel's solution that worked nicely for me:

jQuery.extend(jQuery.jgrid.defaults, {
    onSelectRow: function(rowid, e) {
        $('#'+rowid).parents('table').resetSelection();
    }
});

Madura

Very nice. I think only people who have a whole bunch of these things hanging around will appreciate your answer +1 – Lagging

This is a great answer. using resetSelection allows you to preserve the onSelectRow functionality and still clear the selection (I have a custom checkbox implementation that also toggles the checkbox on row click; this allows my code to keep working without the nasty selection color :)) – Eastbourne

Answer 3

try:

onSelectRow: function(rowid, status) {
    $("#grid_id").resetSelection(); //Resets (unselects) the selected row(s). Also works in multiselect mode.
}

you can read documentations here. Hope it helps you...

Yet

Slightly more accurate than my solution. Thanks. – Grackle

This is useful when you want to perform certain actions and then reset the selection. Great solution. – Adhamh

Answer 4

I suppose you could address this in the CSS directly. Just override the values for ui-state-highlight for your specific table

#table_id tr.ui-state-highlight {
  border: inherit !important;
  background: inherit !important;
  color: inherit !important;
}

#table_id tr.ui-state-highlight a {
  color: inherit !important;
}

#table_id tr.ui-state-highlight .ui-icon {
  background-image: inherit !important;
}

I used the value inherit just as an example - you will likely need to copy some values from your theme.css to make this work.

Bacchae

Thank's, I'll give this a shot in the morning and get back to you. – Grackle

For browser compatibility sakes I'm going to dodge this implementation. However it does seem quite nice to hide this problem in the css. Thanks anyway +1. – Grackle

Answer 5

Yes, use the rowattr callback:

rowattr: function (rowData,currentObj,rowId) {
    if (rowData.SomeField=="SomeValue") { 
        return {"class": "ui-state-disabled"};
    }
},

This also grays out the row and disables the selection.

Measly