I've successfully solved my problem. My issue all along was that some entries in a webgrid dropdown list exceeded the width of the column; consequently, when the user clicked the drop-down list, 4 consecutive items appeared to be identical because of truncation. When the user attempted to grab the right column border and expand the column to fully view the drop-down rows, the adjacent column changed width instead of the column of interest. I learned subsequently that this was because the column to the left was hidden. Because the sequence of the columns are important to me, I did not want to move the hidden column elsewhere in the grid.

I overcame this problem by simply unhiding the hidden column and giving it a width of 1px. I then assigned the column property that disallows resizing for the column that was previously hidden. The user can now successfully expand the column that is too narrow and see full contents of the drop-down list but cannot adjust the width of the formerly hidden column (which I do not want him to view).

Thanks for your help and timely responses.

Petar -

I can't seem to get the BeforeSortColumnHandler event to fire. To make it easy, all I have is:

function UltraWebGrid1_BeforeSortColumnHandler(gridName, columnId){
//if the column to be sorted is Name
if (igtbl_getColumnById(columnId).Key == "Name") {

alert("Sort");

}}

I have a similar function for the BeforeColumnSizeChangeHandler handler and it's displaying the alert perfectly. Is there a grid or column property I have to set before the BeforeSortColumnHandler handler will fire?