Hi Tony thanks for the speedy reply. I cannot use aftersubmit as I am using the modal dialog that performs an ajax call and not a form submit, unless I do not understand what events fire with the modal dialog but as far as I understand the modal dialog, not the inkline edit, only performs an ajax call and the aftersubmit will not fire, is that the correct assumption?

What I meant in my original post is that I have included an error message as part of my JSON return string from the server. I want to parse out the error from the JSON string (as you currently do for pages, rows, etc) and display it inside the modal dialog of the formedit. The return string looks like this after I click “submit” on the “Edit Record” modal dialog:

That looks good Tony, you are right I can do it outside of jqGrid but am hoping you folks would include a more “built-in” property and message area for the modal dialog for edits and inserts.

The big problem with this approach on modal dialog's edit/add record is that the “loadComplete” event only fires on initial load and not after every “submit” from the edit/add modal dialog box's ajax call, so which event fires after each one of these events? For example in the Live Data Manipulation NAVIGATOR example, when you click on “Edit selected row”, when the server returns data via userdata and I get it via getUserData(), on what event do I need to attach it, as loadComplete doesn't fire after the ajax call?

Hi Tony, I had to laugh when I realized what had happened. I specified the “afterSubmit()” event as a event directly on the jqGrid instead of specifying it as part of the events for “navGrid()”. It now works as you had excplained. Sorry for the confusion, my bad. Thank you for taking the time to help me.