I want to bind a JSON object to a HTML element.
e.g.
I have a object \"person\" with the attributes \"firstName\", \"lastName\"
If you'll be doing this a lot in your application, you may want to bring in a library such as the excellent Knockout.js which uses MVVM to do bindings as you describe.
Your markup would look something like this:
<div data-bind="text: firstName"></div>
<div data-bind="text: lastName"></div>
And in your JavaScript:
function MyViewModel() {
this.firstName = "John";
this.lastName = "Smith";
}
ko.applyBindings(new MyViewModel());
You can also use a data set if there are many "people." Try out this tutorial if you would like to learn how to do that: Working with Lists and Collections.
Other useful links:
Simple one-way approach using jquery...
var resp = your_json_data;
$(function () {
$(".jsondata").each(function () {
$(this).html(eval($(this).attr("data")));
});
});
then in the page...
<span class="jsondata" data="resp.result.formatted_phone_number" />
You can parse the JSON to turn it into a JavaScript object:
var data = $.parseJSON(json_string);
// or without jQuery:
var data = JSON.parse(json_string);
If I understood your question correctly, you should have JSON that look like this:
[
{
"firstName": "John",
"lastName": "Smith"
},
{
"firstName": "Another",
"lastName": "Person"
} // etc
]
So you can just loop through the people like so:
$(document).ready(function() {
var str = '[{"firstName":"John","lastName":"Smith"},{"firstName":"Another","lastName": "Person"}]',
data = $.parseJSON(str);
$.each(data, function() {
var html = '<div class="person-list-item"><div>' + this.firstName + '</div><div>' + this.lastName + '</div></div>';
$('#person-list').append(html);
});
});
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/RgdhX/2/
You can use one of the MVC/MVVM libereries such is Backbone.js or Knockoutjs.
First, add id attributes to your markup (you could do this with the DOM but for clarity's sake ids are probably best suited for this example):
<div class="person-list-item">
<div id="firstname">John</div>
<div id="lastname">Smith</div>
</div>
Use a jQuery event handler to update the fields whenever they are modified (this is an inefficient solution but gets the job done- worry about optimizing once you have something functional):
// declare your object
function person(firstn, lastn) {
this.firstname = firstn;
this.lastname = lastn;
}
var myGuy = new person("John", "Smith");
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#firstname").change(function () {
myGuy.firstname = $("#firstname").val();
});
$("#lastname").change(function () {
myGuy.lastname = $("#lastname").val();
});
// etc...
});
Now every time the fields are updated your object will be too.
I recommend taking a look at Knockout. Setting up data binding like you are looking for is very straightforward with it.