jQWidgets jqxGrid getcell() Method

Last Updated : 30 Mar, 2023

jQWidgets is a JavaScript framework for making web-based applications for PC and mobile devices. It is a very powerful, optimized, platform-independent, and widely supported framework. The jqxGrid is used to illustrate a jQuery widget that shows data in tabular form. Moreover, it renders full support for connecting with data, as well as paging, grouping, sorting, filtering, and editing.

The getcell() method is used to return a specified cell from the displayed jqxGrid. It returns an object.

The returned object has the following fields:

value: It is the stated value of the cell.
row: It is the stated row of the cell.
column: It is the datafield of the column.

Syntax:

var cell = $("#Selector").jqxGrid(
    'getcell', rowBoundIndex, "dataField");

Parameters:

rowBoundIndex: It is the stated bound index of the row. It is of type number.
dataField: It is the stated datafield of the column specified. It is of type string.

Linked Files: Download https://www.jqwidgets.com/download/ from the given link. In the HTML file, locate the script files in the downloaded folder.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css” type=”text/css” />
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcore.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdata.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxmenu.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqx-all.js”></script>

The below example illustrates the jqxGrid getcell() method in jQWidgets.

Example:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href= 
        "jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" type="text/css" /> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxdata.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxmenu.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqx-all.js"></script>     
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1 style="color: green"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </h1> 
  
        <h3>jQWidgets jqxGrid getcell() 
            method 
        </h3> 
        <br /> 
  
        <div id="jqxg"></div> 
  
        <div> 
            <input type="button" id="jqxBtn" 
                style="margin-top: 25px" value="Click here" /> 
        </div> 
  
        <div id="log"></div> 
    </center> 
  
    <script type="text/javascript"> 
        $(document).ready(function () { 
            var d = new Array(); 
            var subjectNames = 
                ["C++", "Scala", "Java", "C", "R", "JavaScript"]; 
  
            var pageNumber = 
                ["7", "8", "12", "11", "10", "19"]; 
  
            for (var j = 0; j < 7; j++) { 
                var r = {}; 
                r["subjectnames"] = 
                    subjectNames[(Math.floor( 
                        Math.random() * subjectNames.length)) 
                    ]; 
  
                r["pagenumber"] = 
                    pageNumber[(Math.floor( 
                        Math.random() * pageNumber.length)) 
                    ]; 
                d[j] = r; 
  
            } 
            var src = { 
                localdata: d, 
                datatype: "array", 
            }; 
            var data_Adapter = new $.jqx.dataAdapter(src); 
            $("#jqxg").jqxGrid({ 
                source: data_Adapter, 
                sortable: true, 
                height: "220px", 
                width: "230px", 
                columns: [ 
                    { 
                        text: "Subject Name", 
                        datafield: "subjectnames", 
                        width: "120px", 
                    }, 
                    { 
                        text: "Page No.", 
                        datafield: "pagenumber", 
                        width: "120px", 
                    }, 
                ], 
            }); 
  
            $("#jqxBtn").jqxButton({ 
                width: "180px", 
                height: "30px", 
            }); 
            $("#jqxBtn").on("click", function () { 
                var gc = $('#jqxg').jqxGrid( 
                   'getcell', 2, 'subjectnames'); 
                $('#log').text(gc.value); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>