You current code will be run only one time - at the initialisation time when you call 'navGrid' function. I wrote you before that if you want to have dynamic message (if the text will be different at different calls) like you as want you have to do this in beforeShowForm event handle. You can do like following

jQuery("#list").jqGrid('navGrid','#pager',
            {edit:false,view:true}, //options
            {}, // edit options
            {height:290,reloadAfterSubmit:false,jqModal:false, closeOnEscape:true,bottominfo:"Fields marked with (*) are required", closeAfterAdd: true}, // add options
            {reloadAfterSubmit:true,jqModal:true, closeOnEscape:true,caption: "Delete…",width:300
              beforeShowForm: function(form) {
                  $("td.delmsg",form).html("Do you really want delete the row with <b>id=" +
                                                      jQuery("#list").jqGrid('getGridParam','selrow') + "</b>?");
                }}, // del options
            {closeOnEscape:true}, // search options
            {height:250,jqModal:false,closeOnEscape:true} // view options
            )};

It is an example only what you can do to ovewrite the default text. On the page http://www.ok-soft-gmbh.com/jq.....DelMsg.htm you can how it work live. I changed the width parameter of the delete message box only to make it without scroll bar. You can choose the value of width depend on the size of the text which you will display.

Best regards
Oleg

I'm trying to figure out how to add the row id and then maybe some cell text to the "msg:" statement. 

Thanks,

tom

delGridRow(rowId, {msg: "Are you sure you want to delete BlaBlaBla?"});

you can also set msg parameter of delGridRow as a part of prmDel parameter of the navGrid function.

If you want to have the text absolutely dynamically you will probably have to use beforeShowForm event handle of the delGridRow.

Best regards
Oleg 

I would like to know how to customize the Delete row modal dialog window? I would like it to "Are you sure you want to delete $variable_Name?" instead of "Delete selected record(s)?"

How do I do this?

Thanks,

tom