Hello Tony,

The memory leaks seemed to be across several browsers (IE, Firefox).

I hope you didn't misunderstand – not the jqGrid itself has a memory leak – but any jQuery widget attached to the grid will not be destroyed correctly but keeps somewhere in memory.

The only solution (I found) to destroy those attached widgets (e.g. context menues or special tooltips on cells or rows) was by calling the jQuery remove method.

here is the code how I create my context menu widgets:

// attach context menues on all grid rows
var gridCompleteFunction = function() {


Hello Tony,

No, your suggestion did not help with my problem. The mentioned statement (
$("*",tBody).children().unbind();

) will only unbind all events but will not clean up the following …

• any created jQuery / jQuery UI widgets
• DOM elements and JavaScript objects (created manually or within a jQuery UI widget)

For example when I attach jQuery Tooltips on cells in the table, they create some JS objects and some DOM elements (DIVs) directly on the body.

So the only solution to remove those objects was using the remove method which will then invoke the widget's destroy method.

Kind regards,
Klaus.