jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

I have used gridComplete to show HTML buttons but it shows the HTML text instead of button and encoded HTML as style which does not look good. Please help me show button instead of html text and remove or change title value.

The Output

When I inspect this cell then I could see the following in chrome tools -

<td role="gridcell" style="" title="&amp;lt;input type='button' value='Publish' onclick='publish(100)' /&amp;gt;" aria-describedby="list_actionBtn">&lt;input type='button' value='Publish' onclick='publish(100)' /&gt;</td>

The jqgrid Code

var myColModel = [ {
    name : "promoId",
    index : 'Promotionid',
    width : 60
}, {
    name : "promoCode",
    index : 'promotioncode',
    width : 110
}, {
    name : "name",
    index : 'name',
    width : 160
}, {
    name : "description",
    index : 'description',
    width : 250
}, {
    name : "distCode",
    index : 'distributor_code',
    width : 110
} , {
    name : "statusId",
    hidden : true
} , {
    name : "statusVal",
    index : 'status',
    width : 90
}, {
    name : "startDate",
    index : 'start_date',
    width : 100,
    sorttype : "date",
    align : "right"
}, {
    name : "endDate",
    index : 'end_date',
    width : 100,
    sorttype : "date",
    align : "right"
}, {
    name : "discount",
    index : 'discount',
    width : 80
}, {
    name : "extension",
    index : 'extension',
    width : 80
}, {
    name : "isDiscount",
    hidden : true
}, {
    name : "isExtension",
    hidden : true
}, {
    name : "actionBtn",
    width : 100
} ];
$(function() {
    $("#list")
            .jqGrid(
                    {
                        url : '/suiactcodegen/action/promotion/promolist',
                        datatype : "json",
                        mtype : "GET",
                        colNames : [ "Promo ID", "Promo Code", "Name",
                                "Description", "Distributor Code", "Stt Id",
                                "Status", "Start Date", "End Date",
                                "Discount", "Extension", "Is Disc", "isExtn", "" ],
                        colModel : myColModel,
                        pager : "#pager",
                        rowNum : 10,
                        rowList : [ 10, 20, 30 ],
                        sortname : "end_date",
                        sortorder : "asc",
                        viewrecords : true,
                        gridview : true,
                        rownumber : true,
                        autoencode : true,
                        width : '1000px',
                        height : 'auto',
                        caption : "Promotion Summary",
                        gridComplete: function() {
                            var ids = $("#list").jqGrid('getDataIDs');
                            for (var i = 0; i < ids.length; i++) {
                                var rowId = ids[i],
                                    statusId = $("#list").jqGrid ('getCell', rowId, 'statusId'),
                                    activeBtn = "";
                                    if (statusId == 0) { // Inactive
                                        activeBtn = "<input type='button' value='Publish' " +
                                           "onclick='publish(" + rowId + ")' />";
                                    }
                                    //else if (statusId == 1) { // Published
                                    //  activeBtn = "<input type='button' value='Expire' " +
                                    //       "onclick="expire(" + rowId + ");" />";
                                    //} 
                                 $("#list").jqGrid('setRowData', rowId, { actionBtn: activeBtn });
                            }
                        } 
                        }).jqGrid('navGrid', '#pager', {
                add : false,
                edit : false,
                del : false,
                search : true,
                refresh : false
            }).jqGrid('navButtonAdd', '#pager', {
                caption : " Edit ",
                // buttonicon: "ui-icon-bookmark",
                onClickButton : editPromo,
                position : "last"
            });


});