JSON.stringify output to div in pretty print way

javascript html json pretty-print stringify

Alexis · May 31, 2013 · Viewed 229k times · Source

I JSON.stringify a json object by

result = JSON.stringify(message, my_json, 2)

The 2 in the argument above is supposed to pretty print the result. It does this if i do something like alert(result). However, I want to output this to the user by appending it inside a div. When I do this I get just a single line showing up. (I don't think it is working because the breaks and spaces are not being interpreted as html?)

{ "data": { "x": "1", "y": "1", "url": "http://url.com" }, "event": "start", "show": 1, "id": 50 }

Is there a way to output the result of JSON.stringify to a div in a pretty print way?

Answer

Please use a <pre> tag

demo : http://jsfiddle.net/K83cK/

var data = {
  "data": {
    "x": "1",
    "y": "1",
    "url": "http://url.com"
  },
  "event": "start",
  "show": 1,
  "id": 50
}


document.getElementById("json").textContent = JSON.stringify(data, undefined, 2);

<pre id="json"></pre>

JSON.stringify output to div in pretty print way

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