I keep getting “Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token o”

Question

I\'m trying to learn some html/css/javascript, so I\'m writing myself a teaching project.

The idea was to have some vocabulary contained in a json file which would t

Answer 1

Looks like jQuery takes a guess about the datatype. It does the JSON parsing even though you're not calling getJSON()-- then when you try to call JSON.parse() on an object, you're getting the error.

Further explanation can be found in Aditya Mittal's answer.