Is it possible to remove the expand/collapse button from the jqGrid header?
Yes, there is an option for this: hidegrid: false
From the jqGrid documentation wiki for Options:
hidegrid
boolean
Enables or disables the show/hide grid button, which appears on the right side of the Caption layer. Takes effect only if the caption property is not an empty string.
Use this code to colllapse all jqgrid on the page
elements = $('div.ui-jqgrid-bdiv');elements.each(function() { $(this).css("display", "none"); });elements = $('div.ui-jqgrid-hdiv');elements.each(function() { $(this).css("display", "none"); });$('#JQGrid_pager').hide();$('#rs_mJQGrid').hide();
If you want to disable the main grids toggle button then you can set
hidegrid: falseIf you are trying to disable or hide the subgrids expand and collapse button then use this on loadcomplete
jQuery("#GridTeableID").jqGrid('hideCol', "subgrid");