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