How to count the number of rows in a jqGrid?

Question

How do I count the number of rows in a jqGrid?

To clarify, there is not much data involved so the grid is pulling all of its data back from the server in a single query, instead of using pagination.

Answer 1

Here is the code I have so far. It seems like there should be a better way:

jQuery("#myGrid").getDataIDs().length;

Answer 2

How about this?

jQuery("#myGrid tr").length;

Actually, you can take that a step further with the optional context parameter.

jQuery("tr", "#myGrid").length;

Either one will search for every "tr" inside of "#myGrid". However, from my own testing, specifying the context parameter is usually faster.

Answer 3

jQuery("#myGrid").getGridParam("records");