jQuery.parseJSON throws “Invalid JSON” error due to escaped single quote in JSON

Question

I’m making requests to my server using jQuery.post() and my server is returning JSON objects (like { \"var\": \"value\", ... }). However, if any of

Answer 1

I was trying to save a JSON object from a XHR request into a HTML5 data-* attribute. I tried many of above solutions with no success.

What I finally end up doing was replacing the single quote ' with it code ' using a regex after the stringify() method call the following way:

var productToString = JSON.stringify(productObject);
var quoteReplaced = productToString.replace(/'/g, "'");
var anchor = '' + productObject.name + '';
// Here you can use the "anchor" variable to update your DOM element.