jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

A bit late, had the same problem to solve today. Here is how I solved it: Use jqGrid's events and jQuery

Add or alter the following jqGrid Options when creating the grid:

gridview: false, // If set to true, the event below doesn't fire!

afterInsertRow: function(rowId, rowData, rowElem) {

// rowElem[nnn] column number to compare with (remember Javascript starts indexes at 0, so rowElem[2] selects the 3rd column)

// Adapt the if clause to other comparisions if needed

  if (parseInt(rowElem[7]) == 0) {
    jQuery('tr#'+rowId+' td:last div:first',jQuery(this)).hide();
  }
   return true;
},

This only hides the buttons. You still have to do checkup on the server side.

If you want to disable certain buttons only, you need to tell jQuery more specifically which button you'd want to hide.

If you want to hide the delete button only, do

jQuery('tr#'+rowId+' td:last div:first div.ui-inline-del',jQuery(this)).hide();

If you want to hide the edit button only, do

jQuery('tr#'+rowId+' td:last div:first div.ui-inline-edit',jQuery(this)).hide();

etc.

Final note. If data changes from serve side on row basis, this can be extended to show hidden rows again. However this solution is probably good enough for most cases.