To display emptyrecords message like jqGrid as do you can do something like following:

var myGrid = $('#list');
if (myGrid.getGridParam('reccount') === 0) {
    var pgboxes = myGrid.getGridParam('pager');
    $(".ui-paging-info",pgboxes).html(myGrid.getGridParam('emptyrecords'));
}

Is there a way to  programmatically have the loadtext show? Same question for the emptyrecords? Any help is greatly appreciated.

I have data on a form that post via an ajax call. The results are displayed in a jqGrid. While the ajax call is being processed, I want the jqGrid to display the loadtext.  If no results are returned, I would like the jqGrid to display the message associated with emptyrecords. I have my jqGrid initialized as follows:

.jqGrid({
            datatype: "local",
            height: resultsTableHeight,
            colNames:['Account Id'],
            colModel:[ { name:"id", width:150}],
            multiselect: false,
            loadtext: "Loading...",
            emptyrecords: "No Accounts Found"    
           });

How can I tell the jqGrid to show the loading text? How can I tell the jqGrid to show the emptyrecords message?

Thanks in advance for your help.