jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid - Topic: The grid_bdiv's "_empty" TR element doesn't collapse in IE8 http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/bugs/the-grid_bdivs-_empty-tr-element-doesnt-collapse-in-ie8 Simple:Press Version 5.7.5.3 clafollett on The grid_bdiv's "_empty" TR element doesn't collapse in IE8 http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/bugs/the-grid_bdivs-_empty-tr-element-doesnt-collapse-in-ie8#p8080 Bugs http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/bugs/the-grid_bdivs-_empty-tr-element-doesnt-collapse-in-ie8#p8080 I'm not sure if this has been reported or not yet. Doing searches for IE8 yielded no results.

I'm using jQuery 1.3.2 and jqGrid 3.4.4. IE8 is rendering the "_empty" TR element (i.e. a hidden 1st row in the table which can be seen with Firebug or IE8's Developer Tools). This ends up showing up as a very short empty row before the first real row of data is displayed. Doing some sluething showed that on lines 1382 and  1383 of the grid.base.js file, Mozilla, Safari and Opera all get special CSS for the _empty row but IE does not. I went ahead and modified the Mozilla check to also include IE as follows:

if(isMoz || isMSIE) {$(trow).css({visibility:”collapse”});}

This cured the problem for IE8 but I've not tested against lesser versions of IE to see how they hold up. This issue shows itself while viewing the jqGrid demos too and I have been able to recreate it with just the bare essentials to get jqGrid to running with results.

Just thought I'd pass that on.

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