jqGrid - how to reset grid column widths?

If users manually resize jqGrid columns, ho开发者_Go百科w can you reset the column width back to whatever the original values were?

I don't believe that there are any built in methods for reseting the widths, leaving the option of recording them at creation and restoring them at a later point. Unfortunately, this functionality is the same as it was 10 months ago with column width being one of the few options that cannot be changed once the grid has been created. I even tried the newest version of the grid just to be sure (3.8.2) and it does not allow you to change the column sizes.

$('#jqGrid').getColProp(colName).width;  //Properly retrieves value of column width    
$('#jqGrid').setColProp(colName, {width: newWidth}); //Does nothing visually
$('#jqGrid').getColProp(colName).width;  //Returns newWidth, although it doesn't show it on page

I don't know if it would be worth it, but you could try Oleg's solution here of destroying the current grid and creating a new one in its place. The practicality of this solution I suppose would be dependent upon how you are getting the data and how long it would take to re-bind the data to a new grid.