jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

first of all, thanks for your response tony. i've been waiting for some answer for this 😀

1. yes, i am using form editing. well i've found the answer to this one just yesterday even before i see your answer. sorry for asking this simple thing. actually i've been reading the doc even before i post this question but maybe i'm missed it or i'm opening other part there so i couldn't find it in the first place

2. i had used beforeShowForm yesterday after i red the doc and i succesfully hid the form when it was in edit mode. but i still haven't managed to make it ineditable. because the catch is i had to show the 'id' to user so they know where they are and which data that they change. can you

3. i'm really lost with what you mean about this one. where should i put the code? and what is '#id_g'? did you mean in my case '#id'?

PS: it's not a real forum actually :p but i called it forum because it works like a forum imo :p and its called st***ov**fl** :p

thanks for the response oleg

i've read your response in stack also. answering your question there, i don't use inline editing or loadonce:true. and i do use reloadAfterSubmit. after your response and read the doc more, i can understand about what you mean with id_g. but i still don't understand where should i put the code which tony gave. is it before i put the custom validation? so i use it like this

if( $("#id_g").val() == "_empty")

{
// custom validation
}

but that doesn't work. so i don't know where should i put it.

about my second question, it is still unsolved. i did successfully hide it when in edit mode by using this code

beforeShowForm:function(formid)
{
$("#tr_id",formid).hide();
}

 but it only hides the id while what i need is for the user to still see the id. i've also used this code like what you answered here

 beforeShowForm:function(formid)
{
$("#tr_id",formid).attr('readonly','readonly');
 }

 but that doesn't change anything. in the edit mode the 'id' still can be change when it should be just a readonly.

 here is another part of my code if you to help you understand more

rowNum:15,
rowList:[15,30,45],
imgpath: gridimgpath,
autowidth: true,
pager: '#pagerVWWMODULE',
sortname: 'id',
viewrecords: true,
sortorder: "asc",
caption: "Create Module", 
editurl:"savewmodule.php",
height: "100%",
forceFit : true,
viewsortcols: [false,'vertical',true]
}).jqGrid('navGrid','#pagerVWWMODULE',
{view:true,edit:true,add:true,del:true},
{
width:500,
dataheight:250,
recreateForm:true,
reloadAfterSubmit:true,
jqModal:true,
closeOnEscape:true,
bottominfo:"Fields marked with (*) are required",
onInitializeForm:function(formid)
 {
 $("#tr_rangefrom",formid).show();
 $("#tr_rangeto",formid).show();

},

beforeShowForm:function(formid)
{
$("#tr_id",formid).attr('readonly','readonly');
}

},//edit
{
width:500,
dataheight:250,
recreateForm:false,
reloadAfterSubmit:true,
jqModal:true,
closeOnEscape:true,
bottominfo:"Fields marked with (*) are required",
onInitializeForm:function(formid)
 {

$("#tr_id",formid).show();
 $("#tr_rangefrom",formid).show();
 $("#tr_rangeto",formid).show();

}

},//add

did i miss something there?

i'm sorry if i'm asking too much, but this thing is really new for me. and though i've read the doc but there are still lots of unexplained things there