jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

Tony,

  I've defined a column to contain textarea elements. The text in the textarea elements is shortened according to the width of the column and has "..." appended to it.

Is there an "easy" way to force the textarea to be multiline when its not being edited.  When the text area is edited the textarea properly takes up 3 rows by 25 cols. ie edittype: "textarea", editoptions: { rows: "3", cols: "25"}

To get around this I created a new textarea element and set it for the column.

 var note = document.createElement("textarea");
$(note).attr({ id: "Notes", name: "Notes", rows: 3, cols: "27", readonly: "true" });
$(note).html(StatusNote);

 var row = { Edit: editImg, JobName: JobName, JobID: JobID, Customer: Customer, Lead: Lead, Status: Status, StatusList: Status, TM: TMCheckBox, Promised: promiseDate, Bid: Bid, DateChanged: DateChanged, Notes: $(note) };

$("#list").addRowData(i + 1, row);

Doing this works except that there are scroll bars on the text area.  Not a big deal.  The larger issue is now when I do a row edit I get the html of the element instead of only the text.  I ended up writing functions to extract the message from the html. 

I've read your docs, which are really good, and I don't think I missed anything.  I'm just wondering if I'm doing something wrong or missed something. 

Thanks Brad