http://www.trirand.net/forum/d.....  post#6

my textarea column:

{name: 'Description', index: 'Description', width: 300, editable: true, search: false, sorttype: 'text', edittype: 'textarea', unformat: unfrmttextarea, editoptions: { rows: "10", cols: "40"} }

the unformatter func:

            function unfrmttextarea (cellvalue, options, cellobject) {
               return cellvalue;
            }

With all the total 3 (including my prev post) changes, the textarea field now looks promising  🙂

/blog/?page_id=393/bugs/jqgrid-3-8-1-celledit-enter-key-saves-cell-instead-of-adding-new-line-in-textarea-with-solution/

I'm using JQGrid 4.1.1. I had to REPLACE:

if (e.keyCode === 13) {$($t).jqGrid("saveCell",iRow,iCol);}//Enter

WITH

if (e.keyCode === 13 && (e.target.tagName === undefined || e.target.tagName != 'TEXTAREA')) {$($t).jqGrid("saveCell",iRow,iCol);}//Enter

Another common issue with the textarea is that on Save all the line breaks go away. Temp solutions from here:

http://www.trirand.net/forum/d.....#038;t=337

I had to REPLACE:

if($t.p.treeGrid && $(".tree-wrap",$(tcell)).length>0) {
                            $("span",$(tcell)).html(v).attr(title);
                        } else {
                                $(tcell).html(v).attr(title);
                        }

WITH

if($t.p.treeGrid && $(".tree-wrap",$(tcell)).length>0) {
                            $("span",$(tcell)).html(v).attr(title);
                        } else {
                            if ($t.p.colModel[pos].edittype && $t.p.colModel[pos].edittype=='textarea')
                                $(tcell).text(v).attr(title);
                            else
                                $(tcell).html(v).attr(title);
                        }

Hope this helps someone!

@turigeza: Did you find any solution?

Thanks! 

Thank You for this great application by the way.

The problem is when you set cellEdit true and you have the cell set to textarea hitting enter will cause the data to be save instead of creating a new line. On a text area this is not the expected behavior. 

I have newest version of cqgrid and it happens on both firefox and chrome.

Geza