jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

I am using a grid to manage local data with cell editing enabled.

When the page is submitted, I get the grid data with getRowData() and serialize the data to be appended to the request post data.

If the submit button is clicked while a cell is still in edit mode the input tag is included in the grid data which messes up my serialization and the data sent to the server. Sometimes the grid seems to get stuck with an input element that doesn't get removed.

I tried interating over each cell and calling saveCell(row,col) but this doesn't seem to clear the input element as expected.

Is there a simple way to cancel/reset any in-progress cell editing so that all cells are simple <td>s vs inputs?