Hello Tony,

during answering on one question on the stackoverflow I thought one more time about altarnatives in the implementations of 'showlink' and 'actions' formatters. The 'actions' formatter and in the most usage forms the 'showlink' formatter use binding to every cell of the corresponding grid column. On the other side there already one 'click' event handler bound to the whole table (see the corresponding part of the source code here). In the demo to my anser I have shown how one can use onCellSelect or beforeSelectRow event handler to get the same information which one need. Probably one can goes the same way in the implementation of 'showlink' and 'actions' formatters? One should only modify code of the grid.base.js to make possible to subscribe 'click' event from inside of jqGrid: from the formatters. Then the $.fn.fmatter.rowactions will be called directly or indirectly from the 'click'