JavaInCloud / json-formatter

Takes JSON and renders it into an HTML list.

JSONFormatter.js (beta)

JSONFormatter takes JSON and renders it into an HTML list.

View a demo

Basic usage

This library requires jQuery

The basic usage for JSONFormatter is passing in the JSON and an empty options object:

JSONFormatter.format(json, {});

Options

An options object can can be passed as a second parameter to the format function call (defaults shown):

JSONFormatter.format(json, {
  collapse: false, // Setting to 'true' this will format the JSON into a collapsable/expandable tree
  appendTo: 'body', // A string of the id, class or element name to append the formatted json
  list_id: 'json' // The name of the id at the root ul of the formatted JSON
})

Styling

A basic stylesheet is available to layout the list slightly nicer than the default styles.

<link href='jsonFormatter.css' media='all' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />

To do:

• Fix the object of objects - don't output 0:, 1:, 2:, etc.
• Fix array of strings in first child node
• General refactor - lots of code duplication

Development

Source hosted at GitHub. Report Issues/Feature requests on GitHub Issues.

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2012 Forward. See LICENSE for details.