Returns applied search object for specified field.
getSearchData(field)

field | string, search field name

Returns object or null.

#### Description

If you want to see all searches applied for the grid, you can inspect .searchData object. Use getSearchData to find applied search for a particular search field. This method will simply loop through .searchData object. The field argument is the name of the search field you specified in .searches array when you created the grid.
If you have grid defined in the following way: $('#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: 'Start Date', size: '120px' }, { 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' }, { 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' } ], searches : [ { field: 'recid', caption: 'ID', type: 'int' }, { field: 'fname', caption: 'First Name', type: 'text' }, { field: 'lname', caption: 'Last Name', type: 'text' } ] }); And if user applied search, you can find applied search object: console.log( w2ui['grid'].getSearchData('recid') ); If user did not apply any search, this method will return null.