Jq Grid Search On Enter If Search Box Is Always Visible On Page

This is a followup to this question Possible to make jqGrid Search Box Stay on Page? I found directions for making the grid search on the enter key if the search box is being poppe

Solution 1:

You it is possible. I suppose that you still use jqGrid 3.8.2. So I will use the version in my answer.

The main idea of the solution you can find in the answer. To be more careful the code of beforeShowSearch should be a little extended:

beforeShowSearch: function($form) {
    // because beforeShowSearch will be called on all open Search Dialog,// but the old dialog can be only hidden and not destroyed// we test whether we already bound the 'keydown' eventvar events = $('.vdata',$form).data('events'), event;
    for (event in events) {
        if (events.hasOwnProperty(event) && event === 'keydown') {
            return;
        }
    }
    $('.vdata',$form).keydown( function( e ) {
        var key = e.charCode ? e.charCode : e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : 0;
        if (e.which == 13) { // save//$(".ui-search", $form).click();
            grid[0].SearchFilter.search();
        }
    });
}

The way works in the advance searching dialog (see the demo) and in the dialog which is always over the grid (see another demo).

UPDATED: Starting with jQuery 1.8 one should use $._data($('.vdata',$form)[0], 'events'); instead of $('.vdata',$form).data('events') to get the list of all events of the grid.