I too am having problems getting any of the icons to load in the nav bar.

Using Jquery 1.4.3 and jqGrid 3.8.1.

xml data source, using xmlReader to map the fields correctly.

Tried searching forums, and found some examples of how to make it work, but nothing is loading for me regardless of what I try. I have tried loading navGrid via all 3 examples in the documentation (Javescript code, new api code, and chained mode)

.navGrid('#pager_controlsTasks',{ edit: true, add: true, del: true, search: true, refresh: true },