Displays status text.
status([msg])

msg | string, optional status text

Returns undefined.

#### Description

This method will display status text you specify in the footer of the grid. If you do not specify msg argument, the grid will try to guess status. It will display record id if one record is selected or number of selected records.
If you have following grid: $('#grid').w2grid({ name : 'grid', columns: [ { field: 'recid', caption: 'ID', size: '50px' }, { field: 'lname', caption: 'Last Name', size: '30%' }, { field: 'fname', caption: 'First Name', size: '30%' }, { field: 'email', caption: 'Email', size: '40%' }, { field: 'sdate', caption: 'End Date', size: '120px' } ], 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' } ] }); You can show searches by: w2ui['grid'].status('Loading...');