[javascript] Resize jqGrid when browser is resized?

Is there any way to resize a jqGrid when the browser window is resized? I have tried the method described here but that technique does not work in IE7.

Borrowing from the code at your link you could try something like this:

$(window).bind('resize', function() { 
    // resize the datagrid to fit the page properly:
    $('div.subject').children('div').each(function() {
        $(this).width('auto');
        $(this).find('table').width('100%');
    });
});

This way you're binding directly to the window.onresize event, which actually looks like what you want from your question.

If your grid is set to 100% width though it should automatically expand when its container expands, unless there are some intricacies to the plugin you're using that I don't know about.

Hello Stack overflow enthusiasts. I enjoyed most of answers, and I even up-voted a couple, but none of them worked for me on IE 8 for some strange reason... I did however run into these links... This guy wrote a library that seems to work. Include it in your projects in adittion to jquery UI, throw in the name of your table and the div.

http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2009/08/21/creating-a-fluid-jquery-jqgrid.aspx

http://code.google.com/p/codeincubator/source/browse/#svn%2FSamples%2Fsteveharman%2FjQuery%2Fjquery.jqgrid.fluid%253Fstate%253Dclosed

this seems to be working nicely for me

$(window).bind('resize', function() {
    jQuery("#grid").setGridWidth($('#parentDiv').width()-30, true);
}).trigger('resize');

The main answer worked for me but made the app extremely unresponsive in IE, so I used a timer as suggested. Code looks something like this ($(#contentColumn) is the div that the JQGrid sits in):

  function resizeGrids() {
    var reportObjectsGrid = $("#ReportObjectsGrid");
    reportObjectsGrid.setGridWidth($("#contentColumn").width());
};

var resizeTimer;

$(window).bind('resize', function () {
    clearTimeout(resizeTimer);
    resizeTimer = setTimeout(resizeGrids, 60);
});

I'm using 960.gs for layout so my solution is as follows:

    $(window).bind(
        'resize',
        function() {
                    //  Grid ids we are using
            $("#demogr, #allergygr, #problemsgr, #diagnosesgr, #medicalhisgr").setGridWidth(
                    $(".grid_5").width());
            $("#clinteamgr, #procedgr").setGridWidth(
                    $(".grid_10").width());
        }).trigger('resize');
// Here we set a global options

jQuery.extend(jQuery.jgrid.defaults, {
    // altRows:true,
    autowidth : true,
    beforeSelectRow : function(rowid, e) { // disable row highlighting onclick
        return false;
    },
    datatype : "jsonstring",
    datastr : grdata,  //  JSON object generated by another function
    gridview : false,
    height : '100%',
    hoverrows : false,
    loadonce : true,
    sortable : false,
    jsonReader : {
        repeatitems : false
    }
});

// Demographics Grid

$("#demogr").jqGrid( {
    caption : "Demographics",
    colNames : [ 'Info', 'Data' ],
    colModel : [ {
        name : 'Info',
        width : "30%",
        sortable : false,
        jsonmap : 'ITEM'
    }, {
        name : 'Description',
        width : "70%",
        sortable : false,
        jsonmap : 'DESCRIPTION'
    } ],
    jsonReader : {
        root : "DEMOGRAPHICS",
        id : "DEMOID"
    }
});

// Other grids defined below...

This works..

var $targetGrid = $("#myGridId");
$(window).resize(function () {
    var jqGridWrapperId = "#gbox_" + $targetGrid.attr('id') //here be dragons, this is     generated by jqGrid.
    $targetGrid.setGridWidth($(jqGridWrapperId).parent().width()); //perhaps add padding calculation here?
});

Been using this in production for some time now without any complaints (May take some tweaking to look right on your site.. for instance, subtracting the width of a sidebar, etc)

$(window).bind('resize', function() {
    $("#jqgrid").setGridWidth($(window).width());
}).trigger('resize');

Auto resize:

For jQgrid 3.5+

        if (grid = $('.ui-jqgrid-btable:visible')) {
            grid.each(function(index) {
                gridId = $(this).attr('id');
                gridParentWidth = $('#gbox_' + gridId).parent().width();
                $('#' + gridId).setGridWidth(gridParentWidth);
            });
        }

For jQgrid 3.4.x:

       if (typeof $('table.scroll').setGridWidth == 'function') {
            $('table.scroll').setGridWidth(100, true); //reset when grid is wider than container (div)
            if (gridObj) {

            } else {
                $('#contentBox_content .grid_bdiv:reallyvisible').each(function(index) {
                    grid = $(this).children('table.scroll');
                    gridParentWidth = $(this).parent().width() – origami.grid.gridFromRight;
                    grid.setGridWidth(gridParentWidth, true);
                });
            }
        }

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){    
$(window).on('resize', function() {
    jQuery("#grid").setGridWidth($('#fill').width(), false); 
    jQuery("#grid").setGridHeight($('#fill').height(),true); 
}).trigger('resize');      
});
</script>

autowidth: true

worked perfectly for me. learnt from here.

If you:

• have shrinkToFit: false (mean fixed width columns)
• have autowidth: true
• don't care about fluid height
• have horizontal scrollbar

You can make grid with fluid width with following styles:

.ui-jqgrid {
  max-width: 100% !important;
  width: auto !important;
}

.ui-jqgrid-view,
.ui-jqgrid-hdiv,
.ui-jqgrid-bdiv {
   width: auto !important;
}

Here is a demo