jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

Hi,

I'm using custom formatter to display: 'no translation available…' text whenever data in one cell is empty or null.

Here is how my format/unformat functions look like:

function emptyTranslationFormatter(cellvalue, options, rowObject) {
  if (cellvalue == null || cellvalue == '')
    return 'no translation available...';

  return cellvalue;
}
 
function emptyTranslationUnformatter(cellvalue, options, cellobject) {
    return '';
}

Column is defined this way

{ name: 'Title', index: 'Title', sortable: false, formatter: emptyTranslationFormatter, unformat:

emptyTranslationUnformatter, editable: true, editoptions: { size: 100} },

I use:

* jqGrid 3.8.2

* jQuery 1.4.4

* I have locale js file included before jqGrid js.

How can I force empty values appear on edit form while having nice text available in grid's read-only

appearance ?

many thanks,

Łukasz Podolak