Looking for a Grid

> > Being a novice at jQuery functionality and features, but if I was to > have a table with 200+ rows with changes in them, wouldn't that add > additional overhead to the web page to create custom JS functions that > would reference only the cells that would require a change be done to > it? Yes. :) I'm a novice to the Ajax world myself, but this is something that has no cut and dry answer. Processing on the client versus processing on the server will always have it's strengths and weaknesses. There is no one right answer for this. > But with JS and jQuery being client-side languages, when it makes a > call to the server-side page, from the examples, it looks like it's > only retrieving the data that the query would produce. > > But if I was to attempt to modify certain cells within the table, > wouldn't I have to add JS code to modify every independent cell that > needs a change? Now this part I'm not so sure about. Are you building an editable grid? Remember - a custom formatter is applied to just a column. It rewrites your data. It doesn't necessarily modify the entire table. Also, if you are doing paging with jqGrid, then you are just modifying one column of one page.