Returns previous cell or null if it is first cell in the row. Returns integer or null.

Description

The first argument col_ind is the index in the .columns array. If you have grid defined in the following way: $('#grid').w2grid({ name: 'grid2', columns: [ { field: 'recid', text: 'ID', size: '50px' }, { field: 'lname', text: 'Last Name', size: '30%', editable: { type: 'text' } }, { field: 'fname', text: 'First Name', size: '30%', editable: { type: 'text' } }, { field: 'email', text: 'Email', size: '40%', editable: { type: 'text' } }, { field: 'sdate', text: 'Start Date', size: '120px', editable: { type: 'date' } }, { field: 'edate', text: 'End Date', size: '120px', editable: { type: 'date' } } ], records: [ { recid: 1, fname: 'John', lname: 'doe', email: 'vitali@gmail.com', sdate: '1/3/2012' }, { recid: 2, fname: 'Stuart', lname: 'Motzart', email: 'jdoe@gmail.com', sdate: '2/4/2012' }, { recid: 3, fname: 'Jin', lname: 'Franson', email: '--', sdate: '4/23/2012' }, { recid: 4, fname: 'Susan', lname: 'Ottie', email: 'jdoe@gmail.com', sdate: '5/3/2012' }, { recid: 5, fname: 'Kelly', lname: 'Silver', email: 'jdoe@gmail.com', sdate: '4/3/2012' }, { recid: 6, fname: 'Francis', lname: 'Gatos', email: 'vitali@gmail.com', sdate: '2/5/2012' } ] }); You can do: w2ui['grid2'].prevCell(3, true);