Let me just say these a great questions. I have built a CRM app, using jqGrid everywhere.

Our users love it and performs great. I can highly recommend it and have not had issues with it and Tony's

support and feedback support is excellent. I had trouble with cell editing about a year ago and decided to go

with form editing (modal dialog popup) for all my editing, but I know the cell editing has received a lot of work

and has been improved so cannot speak to what it looks like now.

Since you asked quite a few questions, let me address the Street address, zip code question. What I do this a

lot in places where I want to cram the data together, that in the back-end-DB, is separated, like contact names,

is to have for example the following where I show it for a contact's full name, with the ability to update each,

First, Middle and Last Name in edit/add mode (form edit):

In this example I am loading the list of contacts when the grid is defined dynamically by using an Ajax request to fetch a Json string of key-value pairs that is formatted like this:

If I understand/assume correctly, the POINIT is posted when retrieving the data when populating the grid, but not when editing or adding the data? “postData” property will not post it when editing, adding or deleting via the navGrid CRUD functions. For that you need to append it to the editUrl as in editUrl: myUrl + '?POINIT=' +$('#POINIT').val();

When you say it works outside of the grid, I am not sure how you or where you tested this, so try and do a console.log with Firebug or alert to show the value of POINIT just before the grid is defined, something like:

console.log($('#POINIT').val());

$('#list').jqGrid……