This is experimental method which resizes the grid
This feature uses the jQuery UI resizable widget



HTML <table id="newapi"></table> <div id="pnewapi"></div> Java Scrpt code jQuery("#resize").jqGrid({ url:'server.php?q=2', datatype: "json", colNames:['Inv No','Date', 'Client', 'Amount','Tax','Total','Notes'], colModel:[ {name:'id',index:'id', width:55}, {name:'invdate',index:'invdate', width:90}, {name:'name',index:'name asc, invdate', width:100}, {name:'amount',index:'amount', width:80, align:"right"}, {name:'tax',index:'tax', width:80, align:"right"}, {name:'total',index:'total', width:80,align:"right"}, {name:'note',index:'note', width:150, sortable:false} ], rowNum:10, width:700, rowList:[10,20,30], pager: '#presize', sortname: 'invdate', viewrecords: true, sortorder: "desc", caption:"New API Example" }); jQuery("#resize").jqGrid('navGrid','#presize',{edit:false,add:false,del:false}); jQuery("#resize").jqGrid('gridResize',{minWidth:350,maxWidth:800,minHeight:80, maxHeight:350});