The issue regarding the datepicker popping under the search dialog is a non-issue.

So while jQuery addresses this issue and waiting for jqGrid to address it as well, I thought I'd figure out a way to make this work for myself without having to touch their sources.

I mean one option I had was to modify the jqGrid source and use it but then I'd have to maintain it with or without minifying it myself, etc.

This seems to be a bug in the release 3.7.2 (which I'm using)

My co-worker figured this out and the following style fixes it:

.ui-jqgrid .ui-th-div-ie
{