To select the row and bring it into the view as you mean, you can use scrolltop property. Set the value with the last position of selected row . I enclosed one simple sample that shows how to manually configure the vertical scroll position.

Please have the attached sample tested on your end and let us know whether it helps or not.

Thanks Hendrik.  I'll give the sample a try.  I did specifcially mention that we are NOT posting back so we need to accomplish this with a full page load and NOT post backs, yet your sample is using post backs.  Can you clarify that your solution will work on a full page load too before I spend any time on it?

We use the scrollTop method in our custom controls to scroll selections into view and they work great, but I need to make sure we can do it on an object, like the grid, for which we don't control the code.  Thanks again.

I already knew how to set the scroll position as we do that in our custom controls.  I just needed a way to do it with the grid without ALWAYS having to tinker and muck with the control for features that should already exist.

Please forward this as a feature as I shouldn't have to scroll down to the grid when a row is pre-selected when loading the grid.

Below is the solution I used which works for those that may be in the same situation we are and need help.  Unfortunately I couldn't use the grid's OnPostRender client event handler because it doesn't work (I opened another thread on this issue).

function OnPostRender(controlId,rowKeyValue)
{
   var bRet = true;
   var oGrid = HaveGrid(controlId);
   if (typeof oGrid=='undefined') return bRet;

   if (typeof rowKeyValue != 'undefined' && rowKeyValue != "")
   {
      try
      {
         var oRow = oGrid.RootTable.GetRowByKeyValue(rowKeyValue);
         oRow.Select(); // not really needed as we do this on the server side
                        // but it's how you'd do it on client as well
         var oRowEl = oGrid.RootTable.GetElement(WG40.BODY, WG40.HTMLDIV);

         if (oRowEl != 'undefined') oRowEl.scrollTop = oRow.RowElement.offsetTop;
      }
      catch (e) { }
   }

   return bRet;
}

Note that the above OnPostRender is a custom client side handler that is registered and executed after the page loads.  In order to work correctly, it must be run delayed via setTimeout.  We use 500ms which works great.