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JSON pretty print using JavaScript



Is there a JavaScript JSON pretty print library (with colors, indentation, etc.)?





Source: Tips4all

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  1. With native JSON, there's no need to use a library, since pretty-printing is implemented natively.

    var obj = {a:1, 'b':'foo', c:[false,null, {d:{e:1.3e5}}]};
    var str = JSON.stringify(obj, undefined, 2); // indentation level = 2


    See the MDN Docs for further details (e.g. on the second argument);

    If you need syntax highlighting, you might use some regex magic like so:

    function syntaxHighlight(json) {
    if (typeof json != 'string') {
    json = JSON.stringify(json, undefined, 2);
    }
    json = json.replace(/&/g, '&amp;').replace(/</g, '&lt;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
    return json.replace(/("(\\u[a-zA-Z0-9]{4}|\\[^u]|[^\\"])*"(\s*:)?|\b(true|false|null)\b|-?\d+(?:\.\d*)?(?:[eE][+\-]?\d+)?)/g, function (match) {
    var cls = 'number';
    if (/^"/.test(match)) {
    if (/:$/.test(match)) {
    cls = 'key';
    } else {
    cls = 'string';
    }
    } else if (/true|false/.test(match)) {
    cls = 'boolean';
    } else if (/null/.test(match)) {
    cls = 'null';
    }
    return '<span class="' + cls + '">' + match + '</span>';
    });
    }


    See in in action (jsfiddle)

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  2. Douglas Crockford's JSON in JavaScript library will pretty print JSON via the stringify method.

    You may also find the answers to this older question useful: How to pretty-print JSON script?

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  3. Pretty Diff uses a heavily modified form of js-beautify. Try it out and see if it does all that you need:

    http://prettydiff.com/

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