JSONArray with jquery

Question

I have JSONArray Containing JSONObjects

[ { 'title': abc, 'details':xyz,}, {'title': abc2,'details':xyz2}]

How to parse it using jquery?

• David Hedlund: In what manner do you want to parse it? What is your desired output?
• Richard Adnams: I'm not sure what your asking, do you have the JSON as a string or is it already and array of objects?

Answer 1

parseJSON will convert your Json string into a javascript object. The code is something like

var array = $.parseJSON(json);

Then to access the variables you use code like

var title1 = array[0].title; //title1 is abc

• MalTec: is this function available with jquery1.4.3-min ?? i m not getting parseJSON in ide
• Belinda: Version added 1.4.1 so it should be available.
• MalTec: My json data contains HTML text.. & a URL too.. does it throw exception when using parseJSON?
• Belinda: Once your string is encoded properly i.e. in double quotes it shouldn't throw an execption
• MalTec: ohk.. i guess the issue is with HTML it contains string like: <img src=""> is there a solution for avoiding exceptions.. it finads end at double quotation of HTML data in JSON

Answer 2

I think you need to use parseJSON if your array is a string.

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.parseJSON/