print JSON using JavaScript?

How can I display JSON in an easy-to-read (for human readers) format? I'm looking primarily for indentation and whitespace, with perhaps even colors / font-styles / etc.


Pretty-printing is implemented natively in JSON.stringify() . The third argument enables pretty printing and sets the spacing to use:

var str = JSON.stringify(obj, null, 2); // spacing level = 2

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 action here: jsfiddle

Or a full snippet provided below:

function output(inp) {
    document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('pre')).innerHTML = inp;
}

function syntaxHighlight(json) {
    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>';
    });
}

var obj = {a:1, 'b':'foo', c:[false,'false',null, 'null', {d:{e:1.3e5,f:'1.3e5'}}]};
var str = JSON.stringify(obj, undefined, 4);

output(str);
output(syntaxHighlight(str));
pre {outline: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 5px; margin: 5px; }
.string { color: green; }
.number { color: darkorange; }
.boolean { color: blue; }
.null { color: magenta; }
.key { color: red; }

User Pumbaa80's answer is great if you have an object you want pretty printed. If you're starting from a valid JSON string that you want to pretty printed, you need to convert it to an object first:

var jsonString = '{"some":"json"}';
var jsonPretty = JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(jsonString),null,2);  

This builds a JSON object from the string, and then converts it back to a string using JSON stringify's pretty print.


Based on Pumbaa80's answer I have modified the code to use the console.log colours (working on Chrome for sure) and not HTML. Output can be seen inside console. You can edit the _variables inside the function adding some more styling.

function JSONstringify(json) {
    if (typeof json != 'string') {
        json = JSON.stringify(json, undefined, 't');
    }

    var 
        arr = [],
        _string = 'color:green',
        _number = 'color:darkorange',
        _boolean = 'color:blue',
        _null = 'color:magenta',
        _key = 'color:red';

    json = json.replace(/("(u[a-zA-Z0-9]{4}|[^u]|[^"])*"(s*:)?|b(true|false|null)b|-?d+(?:.d*)?(?:[eE][+-]?d+)?)/g, function (match) {
        var style = _number;
        if (/^"/.test(match)) {
            if (/:$/.test(match)) {
                style = _key;
            } else {
                style = _string;
            }
        } else if (/true|false/.test(match)) {
            style = _boolean;
        } else if (/null/.test(match)) {
            style = _null;
        }
        arr.push(style);
        arr.push('');
        return '%c' + match + '%c';
    });

    arr.unshift(json);

    console.log.apply(console, arr);
}

Here is a bookmarklet you can use:

javascript:function JSONstringify(json) {if (typeof json != 'string') {json = JSON.stringify(json, undefined, 't');}var arr = [],_string = 'color:green',_number = 'color:darkorange',_boolean = 'color:blue',_null = 'color:magenta',_key = 'color:red';json = json.replace(/("(u[a-zA-Z0-9]{4}|[^u]|[^"])*"(s*:)?|b(true|false|null)b|-?d+(?:.d*)?(?:[eE][+-]?d+)?)/g, function (match) {var style = _number;if (/^"/.test(match)) {if (/:$/.test(match)) {style = _key;} else {style = _string;}} else if (/true|false/.test(match)) {style = _boolean;} else if (/null/.test(match)) {style = _null;}arr.push(style);arr.push('');return '%c' + match + '%c';});arr.unshift(json);console.log.apply(console, arr);};void(0);

Usage:

var obj = {a:1, 'b':'foo', c:[false,null, {d:{e:1.3e5}}]};
JSONstringify(obj);

Edit: I just tried to escape the % symbol with this line, after the variables declaration:

json = json.replace(/%/g, '%%');

But I find out that Chrome is not supporting % escaping in the console. Strange... Maybe this will work in the future.

Cheers!

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