Thanks for all the help today Oleg!

Thanks,
Steffan 

Do you used Fiddler or Firebug to examine full headers in the server responce?

Best regards
Oleg 

{"records": "2", "page": "1", "total": "1", "rows": [{"userid": "2", "cell": ["2", "Joe", "Dirt", "Joe@dirt.com", "dirtyboy", "Group 1", "", "1"]}, {"userid": "1", "cell": ["1", "Steffan", "Cline", "steffan@xxxxx.com", "tester", "Group 1,Group 2,Group 3,Group 4", "", "1"]}]}

The version 1.8.10 should be compatibale with 1.3.2+ inclusive 1.5.1. I hope that the most important compatibility bugs and other gugs of the new versions are fixed not. I recommend you to start with jQuery 1.5.1 but not use the features which are new in 1.5 at the begining. So you can have performace advantage of the new version and have rollback way to jQuery 1.4.4 if you will find an important bug. After testing of main features which you need you can start to use new features of jQuery 1.5.1 if needed.

Good luck
Oleg 

I just downloaded the jQuery UI a couple days ago and it still ships with 1.4.4. Is the UI compatible with 1.5.1?

Thanks,

Steffan

I suspect that you problem is the "Content-Type" which not set or set wrong on the server ("/async/users.lasso"). I could reproduce the problem with jQuery 1.4.4 if I use at the response Steffan.txt file with the contain like you posted. In the case my web server place Content-Type: text/plain in the header of the response and one see ajax parsing error. Because use don't define loadError event hendle you just see empty grid. You can see the problem reproduced on the demo. If I just rename the file to Steffan.xml, my web server will use Content-Type: application/xml and the same code will work (see here). Of course in case or dynamic data you have to set "Content-Type" in other way, but the same effects will stay.

One more way to fix the problem is to use jQuery 1.5 (I used jQuery 1.5.1): see the fixed demo. In jQuery 1.5 the ajax module is full rewritten and the problems which one has in httpData function of jQuery one don't has more.

Best regards
Oleg 

$("#navgrid").jqGrid({

url:"/async/users.lasso",

datatype: "XML",

hidegrid: false,

colNames:["User ID","First Name","Last Name","Email","Password","Groups","Notes","Admin"],

colModel:[

{name:'id', index:'id', width:55, editable:false, editoptions:{readonly:true,size:10}, hidden:true},

{name:'firstname', index:'firstname', width:100, editable:true, editoptions:{size:25}, editrules:{required:true}},

{name:'lastname', index:'lastname', width:100, editable:true, editoptions:{size:25}, editrules:{required:true}},

{name:'email', index:'email', width:100, editable:true, editoptions:{size:25}, editrules:{email:true, required:true}},

{name:'password', index:'password', width:100, hidden:true, editable:true, editoptions:{edithidden:true}},

{name:'groups', index:'groups', width:100, editable:true, edittype:"textarea", editoptions:{rows:"2",cols:"25"}, align:"left", sortable:"no"},

{name:'notes', index:'notes', width:200, editable:true, edittype:"textarea", editoptions:{rows:"2",cols:"25"}, align:"left"},

{name:'isadmin', index:'isadmin', width:60, editable:true, edittype:"checkbox", editoptions:{value:"Yes:No"}, align:"left"}

],

rowNum:10,

rowList:[10,20,30],

pager: '#pagernav',

sortname: "id",

viewrecords: true,

sortorder: "desc",

caption:"Existing Users",

editurl:"/async/users.lasso",

height:210

});

$("#navgrid").jqGrid('navGrid','#pagernav',

{}, //options

{height:280,reloadAfterSubmit:false}, // edit options

{height:280,reloadAfterSubmit:false}, // add options

{reloadAfterSubmit:false}, // del options

{} // search options

);

The XML for example:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

<rows>

<page>1</page><total>2</total><records>13</records>

<row id='13'><cell>13</cell><cell>Joe</cell><cell>Dirt</cell><cell>abc</cell><cell>0.00</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell></row>

<row id='12'><cell>12</cell><cell>Hank</cell><cell>Williams</cell><cell>def</cell><cell>140.00</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell></row>

<row id='11'><cell>11</cell><cell>2007-10-06</cell><cell>abc</cell><cell>ghi</cell><cell>120.00</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell></row>

<row id='10'><cell>10</cell><cell>2007-10-06</cell><cell>abc</cell><cell>100.00</cell><cell>20.00</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell></row>

<row id='9'><cell>9</cell><cell>2007-10-06</cell><cell>abc</cell><cell>200.00</cell><cell>40.00</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell></row>

<row id='8'><cell>8</cell><cell>2007-10-06</cell><cell>abc</cell><cell>200.00</cell><cell>0.00</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell></row>

<row id='7'><cell>7</cell><cell>2007-10-05</cell><cell>abc</cell><cell>120.00</cell><cell>12.00</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell></row>

<row id='6'><cell>6</cell><cell>2007-10-05</cell><cell>abc</cell><cell>50.00</cell><cell>10.00</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell></row>

<row id='5'><cell>5</cell><cell>2007-10-05</cell><cell>abc</cell><cell>100.00</cell><cell>0.00</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell></row>

<row id='4'><cell>4</cell><cell>2007-10-04</cell><cell>abc</cell><cell>150.00</cell><cell>0.00</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell><cell>No</cell></row>

</rows>

I'll post the JSON when I go back to it but is there a trick of a sort I may be missing?

You posted almost no information which can be used to help you. In case of any problems in loading of data in the grid you should allways post

1. The version number of jqGrid which you use.
2. The full definition of jqGrid, especially colModel, datatype, abd jsonReader/xmlReader parameters it any used.
3. The test JSON/XML data which will be really send back to the jqGrid from the server. You can use for example Fiddler or Firebug to catch tha data.

If you suspect that you don't load all jqGrid modules you should open jquery.jqGrid.min.js and examine the list of modules in the comment at the begining of the JS-file (search for "Modules:" text).

Best regards
Oleg