jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

Let me just say these a great questions. I have built a CRM app, using jqGrid everywhere.

Our users love it and performs great. I can highly recommend it and have not had issues with it and Tony's

support and feedback support is excellent. I had trouble with cell editing about a year ago and decided to go

with form editing (modal dialog popup) for all my editing, but I know the cell editing has received a lot of work

and has been improved so cannot speak to what it looks like now.

Since you asked quite a few questions, let me address the Street address, zip code question. What I do this a

lot in places where I want to cram the data together, that in the back-end-DB, is separated, like contact names,

is to have for example the following where I show it for a contact's full name, with the ability to update each,

First, Middle and Last Name in edit/add mode (form edit):

Now, as far as your address question for over several lines, you could do this on the server-side when you define

the format for lets say a FullAddress property:

FullAddress in your DTO is:

I realize this is long after the fact, but in case anyone else is looking to solve a similar problem (extra content on cell hover).

You can use cluetip plugin or similar to accomplish this.

  Add a custom formatter option to the colModel that returns a span with class tooltip and rel='/my/tip/url/' + row_id.  

  Apply the cluetip in loadComplete.

pseudo example:

exampleFormatter = function (cellvalue, options, rowObject) {
     return '<span class="tooltip" rel="/my/tooltip/url?id='+ options.rowId +'">' 
         + cellvalue + '</span>' 
}  

grid_options = {  
    colModel : [  
        {name:'example', index:'example', formatter:exampleFormatter,    
            stype:'none', width:120}
    ],   
    loadComplete: function() {       
       $('.tooltip').cluetip({ closePosition: 'title', ajaxCache: false, width: '400px'});
    } 
}

or some variation.