Thanks for the reply Tony. Sorry, I don't think I explained my problem right. So jqgrid has default event behavior for when the user selects a row for example. If I implement an event, like beforeSelectRow, then the default behavior does not happen. Only what's in my beforeSelectRow function will be run. I'm trying to find a way to have it do both. Execute jqgrid's default event behavior as well as my code.
beforeSelectRow: function(rowid) {