I'm not sure if this has been reported or not yet. Doing searches for IE8 yielded no results.

I'm using jQuery 1.3.2 and jqGrid 3.4.4. IE8 is rendering the “_empty” TR element (i.e. a hidden 1st row in the table which can be seen with Firebug or IE8's Developer Tools). This ends up showing up as a very short empty row before the first real row of data is displayed. Doing some sluething showed that on lines 1382 and