Try setting width for the grid itself (in addition to the columns). There is a top-level width property of the grid, I see you have not set it - setting it to, say, 800, while having all these columns with much bigger cumulative length will produce a scrollbar.

    I need to display like 30 columns in jqgrid. Is there any configuration which I can configure to tell jqgrid to auto scroll horizontally within the grid itself? I always get the data like below:

jQuery("#list").jqGrid({
   url:'server.php?q=2',
datatype: "json",
   colNames:['Inv No','Date', 'Client', 'Amount','Tax','Total','Notes','Inv No','Date', 'Client', 'Amount','Tax','Total','Notes','Inv No','Date', 'Client', 'Amount','Tax','Total','Notes','Inv No','Date', 'Client', 'Amount','Tax','Total','Notes'],
   colModel:[
   {name:'id',index:'id', width:55},
   {name:'invdate',index:'invdate', width:90},
   {name:'name',index:'name asc, invdate', width:100},
   {name:'amount',index:'amount', width:80, align:"right"},
   {name:'tax',index:'tax', width:80, align:"right"},
   {name:'total',index:'total', width:80,align:"right"},
   {name:'note',index:'note', width:150, sortable:false},

   {name:'id',index:'id', width:55},
   {name:'invdate',index:'invdate', width:90},
   {name:'name',index:'name asc, invdate', width:100},
   {name:'amount',index:'amount', width:80, align:"right"},
   {name:'tax',index:'tax', width:80, align:"right"},
   {name:'total',index:'total', width:80,align:"right"},
   {name:'note',index:'note', width:150, sortable:false},

   {name:'id',index:'id', width:55},
   {name:'invdate',index:'invdate', width:90},
   {name:'name',index:'name asc, invdate', width:100},
   {name:'amount',index:'amount', width:80, align:"right"},
   {name:'tax',index:'tax', width:80, align:"right"},
   {name:'total',index:'total', width:80,align:"right"},
   {name:'note',index:'note', width:150, sortable:false},  

   {name:'id',index:'id', width:55},
   {name:'invdate',index:'invdate', width:90},
   {name:'name',index:'name asc, invdate', width:100},
   {name:'amount',index:'amount', width:80, align:"right"},
   {name:'tax',index:'tax', width:80, align:"right"},
   {name:'total',index:'total', width:80,align:"right"},
   {name:'note',index:'note', width:150, sortable:false}
   ],
   rowNum:10,
   rowList:[10,20,30],
   pager: '#pager2',
   sortname: 'id',
    viewrecords: true,
    sortorder: "desc",
    caption:"JSON Example"
});

However, under the colModel and colNames, I will have like 30 columsn and once everything loaded, the browser scroll horizontally instead of the jqgrid itself.

Appreciate any help pls. Thanks !

regards,

Mark Thien