title: Remember (persist) the filter, sort order and current page of jqGrid
body: <p>My application users asked if it were possible for pages that contain a jqGrid to remember the filter, sort order and current page of the grid (because when they click a grid item to carry out a task and then go back to it they'd like it to be "as they left it")</p>
  
  <p><strong>Cookies</strong> seem to be the way forward, but how to get the page to <em>load these</em> and <em>set them</em> in the grid <em>before</em> it makes its first data request is a little beyond me at this stage.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing with jqGrid? Thanks!</p>