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My problem is html content not being parsed with JSON.parse .

  1. I am getting input from a content editable div.

    var content = $("#contentInput").html();

  2. I am sending it to server after JSON.stringify

    var dataToServer= JSON.stringify(content); //sending an object

  3. The same content I am getting from server, and I attempting to parse it.;

    var dataFromServer = JSON.parse(content);

Here my problem raises parser throwing error. content of html data receiving as it is.

I was tried eval but after reading the some articles I was withdrawn my decision.

How to resolve the problem.

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Why are you JSON.stringifying a string? –  Musa Oct 5 '12 at 5:55
 
@Musa: That's what suprised me too :) –  Arkadiusz 'flies' Rzadkowolski Oct 5 '12 at 5:57
 
i was sending an object with content to server that's way JSON.stringify –  ramesh babu Oct 5 '12 at 6:24
 
How are you sending the data to the server? I'm pretty sure you don't need JSON at all! –  Jack Oct 5 '12 at 6:27
 
i have some other fields to send with content i must need json –  ramesh babu Oct 5 '12 at 6:32
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Here is fiidle demo of working code.

The problem is your server corrupting the content. Please check out your server code, it may add some non printable charaecters.

JSON.parse fails if the content not in JSON format. It strictly follow the rules of jsonstring to parse it( I mean double quotations and other /).

Your server may be adding some other unuseful characters to content or jsonstring.

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JSON.stringify expects a javascript object. Try like this:

var content = $("#contentInput").html();
var dataToServer = JSON.stringify({ html: content });
...
var dataFromServer = JSON.parse(dataToServer);
var content = dataFromServer.html;
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its not working yar! thats way i was posted the question. Please the question properly. –  ramesh babu Oct 5 '12 at 6:31
 
stringify on a string is perfectly legal. There may not be much of a point in doing it if you know you're always dealing with just strings, but there's nothing wrong with it: JSON.parse(JSON.stringify('foo')) === 'foo'. –  John Flatness Oct 5 '12 at 6:35
 
@rameshbabu, what error do you get? Does the browser that you are using support the JSON.stringify method? –  Darin Dimitrov Oct 5 '12 at 6:40
 
@Darin unexpected token ' error getting while JSON.parse –  ramesh babu Oct 5 '12 at 6:54
 
@John But in the case of html content its not working –  ramesh babu Oct 5 '12 at 6:55

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