I'm not sure I really made myself clear though as I definitely agree that this isn't something that belongs in jqgrid itself.  What I was hoping to learn was how I could use jquery to return the items from the colModel that have a specific formatter assigned.

I just found the getColProp() method though so I will look at that and see if I can figure out how to dynamically find all columns that have a formatter of 'date' specified.

Thanks again for jqGrid!

I do not think that your approach is bad.

jqGrid is designed to give freedom, not ready solutions.

Imagine I attach a datepicker to all fields marked as date, but what will be if

1. not jQuery UI is used

2. The developer do not want to attach this datepicker

3. the developer do not want to attach datepicker as all.

In this case I should write a couple of not needed code with huge logic

Regards

Tony

I'm interested in attaching the datepicker to all input fields associated with a column that has a formatter setting of 'date'.  What I really want to do is add the datepicker to the filtergrid multi-search feature…  As a temporary solution I just bound datepicker to all inputs that contain '_date' in their name but that isn't a very general purpose solution.

Ideally (I think) I'd want to base the datepicker based on the formatter flag.  I imagine there is a (reasonably) easy way I could use jQuery to get all the elements having a formatter of date and then bind datepicker to the associated filtergrid inputs.  But I'm still relatively new to jQuery/jqGrid and haven't had much luck doing this myself yet.

Oh, and THANKS either way.  jqGrid is great!