When I tried to apply the solution proposal in my code (a cell's content is some clickable image, with JqGrid 3.6.2), since inline event such as didn't work (returning false doesn't cancel event bubbling), I tried to add an inline script and stumbled into a new problem : the jqGrid “td” title is set to td content filtered by jgrid.striphtml function. When I have a blah piece of code, it keeps “blah”.