The predefined formatter showlink is not perfect. It is very easy to write your own custom formatter which produce exact HTML code fragment for the link format which you need.

In both cases the function which you can call in the way must be global. If you prefer concept of unobtrusive JavaScript you can use predefined formatter showlink with '#' as the value of href attribute and make binding to the click on the link inside of loadComplete function. I created small demo example which demonstrate the technique. On the click on the text like "Physics" in the table will be opened the url http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics which will be build dynamical. I included an additional alert to show how to decode information about the row id additionally.

Best regards
Oleg 

I'd like to format a column cell as a link

I've already read this wiki page : http://www.trirand.com/jqgridw.....showaction

but there are only examples such as
http://localhost/someurl.php?m.....ction=edit

In my case, I use url-rewriting and I have to format links that look like :
http://localhost/someurl/123/edit

As I don't have an example that fits well, I tried somethings using jqGridRender::setColProperty()
but nothing works as expected.

Is there a way I can do that with jqGridRender (either server-side or client-side) ?

Thank you.