Use the loadComplete-Property to get the number of records after the request like this:

jQuery('#mygrid').jqGrid({
  ...
  loadComplete:function(){
    var returnedrecords = $('#mygrid').getGridParam('records');
    alert(returnedrecords); // do someting with the var
  }
  ...
});

For this to work, you must provide "records" in your server-side backend.

First of all, thanks for you great jQuery plugin, it's awesome!

And now my problem: I am using jq-grid with data returned by the server in JSON format.

I would like to display in a separate point in the we page the number of rows returned. How do I do it? I guess there must be some JavaScript I can use to get this.

Also, I would like to be able to access directly the JSON data, i.e. properties like these: root, page, total, records, repeatedItems... and so on.

Thank you in advance.