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

Basically if the response header is text/html you need to parse, and if the response header is application/json it is already parsed for you.

Parsed data from jquery success handler for text/html response:

var parsed = JSON.parse(data);

Parsed data from jquery success handler for application/json response:

var parsed = data;