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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 getselectedcell() method is used to return the selected cell from the displayed jqxGrid. Where, the mode of selection is singlecell, multiplecells, or multiplecellsextended. It has no parameters. It returns an object that has two fields namely rowindex i.e. the bound index of the row and datafield i.e. the datafield of the column.

Syntax:

var cell = $('#Selector').jqxGrid('getselectedcell');

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>

The below example illustrates the jqxGrid getselectedcell() 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>
</head>
  
<body>
    <center>
        <h1 style="color: green">
            GeeksforGeeks
        </h1>
  
        <h3>
              jQWidgets jqxGrid getselectedcell() 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 < 50; 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,
                selectionmode: 'singlecell',
                height: "240px",
                width: "300px",
                columns: [
                    {
                        text: "Subject Name",
                        datafield: "subjectnames",
                        width: "160px",
                    },
                    {
                        text: "Page No.",
                        datafield: "pagenumber",
                        width: "160px",
                    },
                ],
            });
  
            $("#jqxBtn").jqxButton({
                width: "180px",
                height: "30px",
            });
            $("#jqxg").jqxGrid('selectcell', 2, 'pagenumber');
            $("#jqxBtn").on("click", function () {
                var gsc = $('#jqxg').jqxGrid('getselectedcell');
                $("#log").text(
                    "Index of row: " + gsc.rowindex 
                      + ", datafield: " + gsc.datafield
                );
            });
        });
    </script>
</body>
  
</html>


Output:

Reference: https://www.jqwidgets.com/jquery-widgets-documentation/documentation/jqxgrid/jquery-grid-api.htm?search=



Last Updated : 29 Mar, 2023
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