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In this post, we will show you how to display the jQuery Grid widget inside a Popup by using the DropDownButton widget. 1. Include the necessary JavaScript and CSS files.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../scripts/jquery-1.7.2.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/jqxdropdownbutton.js"></script> 

2. Add one DIV tag for the DropDownButton and another DIV tag inside for the Grid.

<div id="jqxdropdownbutton">
	<div style="border: none;" id="jqxgrid">
	</div>
</div>

3. Create a JavaScript function that will generate and return an array of sample data that we will load into the Grid.

function generatedata(rowscount) {
	// prepare the data
	var data = new Array();
	if (rowscount == undefined) rowscount = 100;
	var firstNames =
	[
		"Andrew", "Nancy", "Shelley", "Regina", "Yoshi", "Antoni", "Mayumi", "Ian", "Peter", "Lars", "Petra", "Martin", "Sven", "Elio", "Beate", "Cheryl", "Michael", "Guylene"
	];
			var lastNames =
	[
		"Fuller", "Davolio", "Burke", "Murphy", "Nagase", "Saavedra", "Ohno", "Devling", "Wilson", "Peterson", "Winkler", "Bein", "Petersen", "Rossi", "Vileid", "Saylor", "Bjorn", "Nodier"
	];
			var productNames =
	[
		"Black Tea", "Green Tea", "Caffe Espresso", "Doubleshot Espresso", "Caffe Latte", "White Chocolate Mocha", "Caramel Latte", "Caffe Americano", "Cappuccino", "Espresso Truffle", "Espresso con Panna", "Peppermint Mocha Twist"
	];
			var priceValues =
	[
		 "2.25", "1.5", "3.0", "3.3", "4.5", "3.6", "3.8", "2.5", "5.0", "1.75", "3.25", "4.0"
	];
	for (var i = 0; i < rowscount; i++) {
		var row = {};
		var productindex = Math.floor(Math.random() * productNames.length);
		var price = parseFloat(priceValues[productindex]);
		var quantity = 1 + Math.round(Math.random() * 10);
		row["id"] = i;
		row["available"] = productindex % 2 == 0;
		row["firstname"] = firstNames[Math.floor(Math.random() * firstNames.length)];
		row["lastname"] = lastNames[Math.floor(Math.random() * lastNames.length)];
		row["productname"] = productNames[productindex];
		row["price"] = price;
		row["quantity"] = quantity;
		data[i] = row;
	}
	return data;
}

4. Create a new dataAdapter with 100 data records.

var data = generatedata(100);
var source =
{
	localdata: data,
	datatype: "array"
};
var dataAdapter = new $.jqx.dataAdapter(source);

5. Initialize the DropDownButton by selecting the ‘jqxdropdownbutton’ DIV tag and calling the jqxDropDownButton constructor.

$("#jqxdropdownbutton").jqxDropDownButton({ width: 150, height: 25});

6. Initialize the Grid and set its source property to point to the data adapter.

$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid(
{
	width: 550,
	source: dataAdapter,
	columns: [
	  { text: 'First Name', columntype: 'textbox', datafield: 'firstname', width: 90 },
	  { text: 'Last Name', datafield: 'lastname', columntype: 'textbox', width: 90 },
	  { text: 'Product', columntype: 'dropdownlist', datafield: 'productname', width: 180 },
	  { text: 'Quantity', datafield: 'quantity', width: 70, cellsalign: 'right' },
	  { text: 'Price', datafield: 'price', cellsalign: 'right', cellsformat: 'c2' }
	]
});

7. We want to update the DropDownButton’s text when the user selects a Grid row. In order to achieve that, we will bind to the Grid’s ‘rowselect’ event and will call the DropDownButton’s ‘setContent’ function to set the displayed text.

$("#jqxgrid").bind('rowselect', function (event) {
	var args = event.args;
	var row = $("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid('getrowdata', args.rowindex);
	var dropDownContent = '<div style="position: relative; margin-left: 3px; margin-top: 5px;">' + row['firstname'] + ' ' + row['lastname'] + '</div>';
	$("#jqxdropdownbutton").jqxDropDownButton('setContent', dropDownContent);
});
$("#jqxgrid").jqxGrid('selectrow', 0);