mercurio said:pkane's solution is working for me, too. Is there any chance this will make it into a future release? Alternatively, putting that outer span's style into the CSS would allow those of us who need this fix to implement it in CSS rather than patching the source.

pkane's solution works for me too!

I am using jqGrid 4.4.1.

Here's what I had to do to fix this issue:

In jquery.jqgrid.min.js search for “<div style='position:absolute;top:-1000000px;width:1px;height:1px;'" and change the style attribute "position:absolute" to "position:fixed".