Today, in a Jqgrid, you've got on row for each table record. Each table column could be Grid cell.

The datatype of each cell can be customized with formatter or directly when the data are getted from your database.

You can save your data before save them into database.

But what you're talking is each row / cells correspond to only one table row formatted into XML, i'm right ?

You can do this in two ways :

 - First : CSV export and you format data

 - Create custom function to do that and fetch all grid rows.

In each case, i think than you'll need to customize grid button OR catch after submit form event and do nothing on form saving.

Maybe trirand will have a best solution.

I dont want to save the data by row, I want the whole thing, just  like if I was dealing with a normal textarea.

How will jqgrid will save the data and under which POST VARIABLE?

Thank you