In my case I needed the value of the cell during a row select event. I was also getting all that HTML mentioned in red but I was able to move move my code BEFORE I moved the row to edit mode. My code to get the cell value is:

grid.jqGrid(“getCell”, id, 1) //id is the id assigned to the row. 1 is the number of the column where the value is

All code:

Markup:

Script:

var lastSelection;

function editRow(id) {