Well, answer is above is still not complete.

The multiselect still displays diagonal greyed lines over grid behind the modal search dialog.

This example is how we want it to work: /blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.html

We are using ui.multiselect.css, but still get this.

Can anyone help us so we do not have to spend hours, perhaps days, debugging jqGrid stuff???

fwiw, we found this: http://www.trirand.net/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2630

Using themes version greyed out the grid before we even pressed Search.

There is no jquery.searchFilter.css in our download.

QUESTION: how does one know the development version vs. any other (production? test?) version?

Is this not supposed to be trivial to make default .navGrid search work?

Last point:

– the NON-display jqGrid, #list2

1. It DOES display if at the top-level.

2. It does NOT display IF THE EXACT HTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT/jqGRID is moved one level