thanks for that. the first part worked a treat.

as for the second bit about removing the edit box. It works. Problem is i still need the cell to post on clicking another cell. restore or save works but it will post on save but not on clicking into the next cell.

I just somehow need to remove the input box without changing anything else

Thanks for that will.

I have got the solution that i want mostly working. However i have run into an interesting problem.

I have my grid setup with cell edit. and when i select the row it expands a sub row that I then set the HTML for. when i do this it works as expected.

If i click into cells in the same row it works as expected.

If i click into cells in the row below it works as expected.

If i click into any row below the current editable cells row it works fine.

But if i click into a row above the current editable cells row it tries to post data to the server when nothing has changed.

and if i look at the ID being posted it is full of the HTML i am setting for the subrow.

however when i click up in the grid to a row above it posts my html as the ID for the row.

I really am stumped.

I have tried commenting out all of my code for the html and inputs. I still get the error.

<div id="jqGridDetails_3" class="tablediv"></div>