With the help of the new method bindKeys we can navigate trough the grid and define different actions for certain keys.
In this example : Select a row and try to use Up and Down keys to navigate trough the grid rows. When a Enter key is pressed a alert appear.


HTML <table id="newapi"></table> <div id="pnewapi"></div> Java Scrpt code jQuery("#keynav").jqGrid({ url:'server.php?q=4', datatype: "json", colNames:['Inv No', 'Date', 'Client', 'Amount','Tax','Total','Notes'], colModel:[ {name:'id', key : true, index:'id', width:55}, {name:'invdate',index:'invdate', width:90}, {name:'name', index:'name', 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: '#pkeynav', sortname: 'invdate', viewrecords: true, sortorder: "desc", jsonReader: { repeatitems : false }, caption: "Keyboard Navigation", height: '100%' }); jQuery("#keynav").jqGrid('navGrid','#pkeynav',{edit:false,add:false,del:false}); // Bind the navigation and set the onEnter event jQuery("#keynav").jqGrid('bindKeys', {"onEnter":function( rowid ) { alert("You enter a row with id:"+rowid)} } );