how to get the current sort column in a jqGrid after user clicks a column header

Question

I'm in the beforeRequest handler, and would like to know what the current sort column is. How can I find that?

Answer 1

You can examine the values of the jqGrid parameters sortname and sortorder ("desc" or "asc"). To get the parameters you can use getGridParam method:

var sortColumnName = $("#list").jqGrid('getGridParam','sortname');

and

var sortOrder = $("#list").jqGrid('getGridParam','sortorder'); // 'desc' or 'asc'