Jqgrid – grouping row level data

I suggest you to use cellattr to set rowspan attribute on some cells or set style="display:none" to hide another unneeded cells. The idea is the same as with colspan from the answer.

As the result you can create the following grid (see the demo)

or another one (see another demo)

The problem with the grids is in another jqGrid features like sorting, paging, hovering and selection. Some from the features one can implement with additional efforts, but another one are more difficult to implement.

The code which I used in the demo is the following:

var mydata = [
        { id: "1", country: "USA", state: "Texas",      city: "Houston",       attraction: "NASA",               zip: "77058", attr: {country: {rowspan: "5"},    state: {rowspan: "5"}} },
        { id: "2", country: "USA", state: "Texas",      city: "Austin",        attraction: "6th street",         zip: "78704", attr: {country: {display: "none"}, state: {display: "none"}} },
        { id: "3", country: "USA", state: "Texas",      city: "Arlinton",      attraction: "Cowboys Stadium",    zip: "76011", attr: {country: {display: "none"}, state: {display: "none"}} },
        { id: "4", country: "USA", state: "Texas",      city: "Plano",         attraction: "XYZ place",          zip: "54643", attr: {country: {display: "none"}, state: {display: "none"}} },
        { id: "5", country: "USA", state: "Texas",      city: "Dallas",        attraction: "Reunion tower",      zip: "12323", attr: {country: {display: "none"}, state: {display: "none"}} },
        { id: "6", country: "USA", state: "California", city: "Los Angeles",   attraction: "Hollywood",          zip: "65456", attr: {country: {rowspan: "4"},    state: {rowspan: "4"}} },
        { id: "7", country: "USA", state: "California", city: "San Francisco", attraction: "Golden Gate bridge", zip: "94129", attr: {country: {display: "none"}, state: {display: "none"}} },
        { id: "8", country: "USA", state: "California", city: "San Diego",     attraction: "See world",          zip: "56653", attr: {country: {display: "none"}, state: {display: "none"}} },
        { id: "9", country: "USA", state: "California", city: "Anaheim",       attraction: "Disneyworld",        zip: "92802", attr: {country: {display: "none"}, state: {display: "none"}} }
    ],
    arrtSetting = function (rowId, val, rawObject, cm) {
        var attr = rawObject.attr[cm.name], result;
        if (attr.rowspan) {
            result=" rowspan=" + '"' + attr.rowspan + '"';
        } else if (attr.display) {
            result=" style="display:" + attr.display + '"';
        }
        return result;
    };

$("#list").jqGrid({
    datatype: 'local',
    data: mydata,
    colNames: ['Country', 'State', 'City', 'Attraction', 'Zip code'],
    colModel: [
        { name: 'country', width: 70, align: 'center', cellattr: arrtSetting },
        { name: 'state', width: 80, align: 'center', cellattr: arrtSetting },
        { name: 'city', width: 90 },
        { name: 'attraction', width: 120 },
        { name: 'zip', index: 'tax', width: 60, align: 'right' }
    ],
    cmTemplate: {sortable: false},
    rowNum: 100,
    gridview: true,
    hoverrows: false,
    autoencode: true,
    ignoreCase: true,
    viewrecords: true,
    height: '100%',
    caption: 'Grid with rowSpan attributes',
    beforeSelectRow: function () {
        return false;
    }
});

I used in the above code additional attr property placed together with the input data. It’s just an example. I wanted to make the implementation of cellattr function more simple. You can use the same idea and to place the information needed for cellattr in any other format.