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ricardobeat on Dec 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Json ⊄ js

Use data-* attributes [1], or print it in a script tag with a text/anything type:

    <script type="text/json" id="mydata">
        { data: "..." }
    </script>

    var data = JSON.parse($('mydata').textContent)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Global_attribu...

benmmurphy on Dec 28, 2012 [–]

If you put it in a script tag you need to ensure you escape </script>. Though, it is probably safer to escape <, >, and & just to be sure.

fforw on Dec 28, 2012 | [–]

The </script> issue is why JSON and Javascript both allow you to escape the slash character with a backslash.

So just going <\/script> is enough.

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