Currently still using 3.5, when debugging with firebug I saw that the this pointer inside at least gridcomplete and selrow is a reference to jqgrid… is this true in all other events, because if this is true, it basically solves the problem, the this pointer allows you to access all jqrid properties and methods!

update… does not seem to be the jquery object. It seems this is the internal jqgrid configuration object that is exposed here???

It would be very usefull if one could get a reference to the grid in all event handlers. Because that would allow to write default handlers for all grids in an application. Now I have to include them on every page for every grid over and over again…