Display JSON as HTML [closed]

Any recommendations on how to embed JSON in an HTML page with the JSON formatted in a human readable style? For example, when you view XML in a browser, most browsers display the XML formatted (indented, proper line breaks, etc). I'd like the same end result for JSON.

Color syntax highlighting would be a bonus.

Thanks

You can use the JSON.stringify function with unformatted JSON. It outputs it in a formatted way.

JSON.stringify({ foo: "sample", bar: "sample" }, null, 4)

This turns

{ "foo": "sample", "bar": "sample" }

into

 {
     "foo": "sample", 
     "bar": "sample" 
 }

Now the data is a readable format you can use the Google Code Prettify script as suggested by @A. Levy to colour code it.

It is worth adding that IE7 and older browsers do not support the JSON.stringify method.

If you are deliberately displaying it for the end user, wrap the JSON text in <PRE> and <CODE> tags, e.g.:

<html>
<body>
<pre>
<code>
[
    {
        color: "red",
        value: "#f00"
    },
    {
        color: "green",
        value: "#0f0"
    },
    {
        color: "blue",
        value: "#00f"
    },
    {
        color: "cyan",
        value: "#0ff"
    },
    {
        color: "magenta",
        value: "#f0f"
    },
    {
        color: "yellow",
        value: "#ff0"
    },
    {
        color: "black",
        value: "#000"
    }
]

</code>
</pre>
</body>
</html>

Otherwise I would use JSON Viewer.

For the syntax highlighting, use code prettify. I believe this is what StackOverflow uses for its code highlighting.

Wrap your formatted JSON in code blocks and give them the "prettyprint" class.
Include prettify.js in your page.
Make sure your document's body tag calls prettyPrint() when it loads

You will have syntax highlighted JSON in the format you have laid out in your page. See here for an example. So if you had a code block like this:

<code class="prettyprint">
    var jsonObj = {
        "height" : 6.2,
        "width" : 7.3,
        "length" : 9.1,
        "color" : {
            "r" : 255,
            "g" : 200,
            "b" : 10
        }
    }
</code>

It would look like this:

var jsonObj = {
    "height" : 6.2,
    "width" : 7.3,
    "length" : 9.1,
    "color" : {
        "r" : 255,
        "g" : 200,
        "b" : 10
    }
}

This doesn't help with the indenting, but the other answers seem to be addressing that.

I think you meant something like this: JSON Visualization

Don't know if you might use it, but you might ask the author.

Display JSON as HTML [closed]

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