Tab and pre wrapped around JSON output in Chrome

Question

I am using this simple code to print an array as a JSON structure.

header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode($this->data, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

I'm using Chrome Version 28.0.1500.95 m. For some odd reason the output is wrapped in a pre tag with a tab character (i.e. \t) at the beginning.

JSON seems to be parsing okay but I still get that tab character when no data is sent. How can I fix this ?

<pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> {
    "title": "Node",
    "items": [
        {
            "label": "Do stuff",
            "icon": "..\/ui\/images\/icons\/16x16\/icon.png",
            "action": "dostuff"
        }
    ]
}</pre>

Edit: Here's the code on the jQuery side:

$.ajax({
    url : "/myproject/getmenu/",
    type : 'GET',
    dataType: "json",
    success : function(data) {
        //alert(JSON.stringify(data,undefined,2));

        if (jQuery.isEmptyObject(data)) {
            return;
        }

        title = data.title;
        items = data.items;

        selected.contextPopup({
            title : title,
            items : items
        });
    }
});

Answer 1

You need to remove whatever code adds the <pre> tag. This causes your response to be invalid JSON (the whitespace to prettyprint it is not a problem though) and thus makes jQuery fail when parsing it.

I couldn't see anything in the PHP docs about the JSON response being wrapped in <pre> but you could surely try it without the flag. I'd also make sure to check if the tag is actually in your response. If you use view-source and have a JSON-pretty-printing browser extension installed it might be added by that extension and not be in the actual JSON handled by your JavaScript code.

Answer 2

hmmm,I was searching for an correct answer my self but none of them worked for. but I tried to do as following and it worked for me ...

1- I set the content type to application/json

2- I used the die(json_encode($this->data)) instead of echo json_encode($this->data)

hope it will work for you although I guess its a bit too late :D forgive me for answering an old question I recently run into same issue myself