It is not strange, but it is related to the nature of the grid and the jQuery UI sortable. Also not sure if this can be fixed easy.

Regards

Tony

One issue i found with ordering. You can see it on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....WD3UNTocoI

As you can see, when i drag the first row to sort, something strange happens to the columns.

Have missed your post - sorry.

Serialize would not work since we bind sortable to the table body of the grid

Also you can use getDataIDs  method to obtain the ne id's after resorting, or use getRowData without parameter to get all rows

These are arays so you can serialize them and send it to server;

Regards

Tony

One question: I'm having hard time here to implement the sortableRows feature.

I'd like to see a demo on how to read the grid's sorted values, also some useability best practice (row sorting is relevant if the sorted column is the 'position' column).

What i'm trying to do here is (but serial is undefined):

  jQuery(”#list”).jqGrid('sortableRows',
          {
             cursor: '.handle',
            update : function () {
                var serial = jQuery('#list').sortable('serialize');
                alert(serial);               
            }
          }
      );

Then I would get the pages first items offset, send the offset and the serialized id's to the server and make :

i =0;

foreach(id from my post) {

update test_table set position = offset + i where tableid = id;

// offset is a positive number equal to the position of the first item on current page

i++;

}

another way is to somehow find out what id was inserted in front of what id, send both to server, then make some updates in the database.

Could someone please provide me a practical example on how to read the sort values?

Thanks.