sending json to view but appears like a string

Question

How can i return json data to a razor view.

at the moment i can send it something like this:

i am assigning it to a hidden field:

"[{"title":"aa","description":"bb"},{"title":"cc","description":"dd"},{"title":"ee","description":"ff"}]"

but it just appears as a string when i do:

var places = $('#hidden-places').val();

how do i make it so that places is not like a string? but an array.

Answer 1

You could use the .parseJSON() function:

var places = $.parseJSON($('#hidden-places').val());
alert(places[0].title); // should alert 'aa'