jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

There is a client-side event gridComplete, you can use it to select the row that was originally selected. To obtain it, prior to the reload, do something similar to

var selRow = jQuery('#jqGridID').getGridParam('selrow')

then in gridComplete use something similar to this

jQuery('#jqGridID').setGridParam( {{ gridComplete: function() 

                        {{                            

                            var grid = jQuery('#jqGridID');

                            grid.setSelection(selRow,false);

                        }}

If you are using ASP.NET, you can see what we are up to here:

http://www.trirand.aspx/demo.aspx

There are a few selection examples where this is automatically handled.