How can I display JSON in an easy-to-read (for human readers) format? I\'m looking primarily for indentation and whitespace, with perhaps even colors / font-styles / etc.
Based on Pumbaa80's answer I have modified the code to use the console.log colours (working on Chrome for sure) and not HTML. Output can be seen inside console. You can edit the _variables inside the function adding some more styling.
function JSONstringify(json) {
if (typeof json != 'string') {
json = JSON.stringify(json, undefined, '\t');
}
var
arr = [],
_string = 'color:green',
_number = 'color:darkorange',
_boolean = 'color:blue',
_null = 'color:magenta',
_key = 'color:red';
json = json.replace(/("(\\u[a-zA-Z0-9]{4}|\\[^u]|[^\\"])*"(\s*:)?|\b(true|false|null)\b|-?\d+(?:\.\d*)?(?:[eE][+\-]?\d+)?)/g, function (match) {
var style = _number;
if (/^"/.test(match)) {
if (/:$/.test(match)) {
style = _key;
} else {
style = _string;
}
} else if (/true|false/.test(match)) {
style = _boolean;
} else if (/null/.test(match)) {
style = _null;
}
arr.push(style);
arr.push('');
return '%c' + match + '%c';
});
arr.unshift(json);
console.log.apply(console, arr);
}
Here is a bookmarklet you can use:
javascript:function JSONstringify(json) {if (typeof json != 'string') {json = JSON.stringify(json, undefined, '\t');}var arr = [],_string = 'color:green',_number = 'color:darkorange',_boolean = 'color:blue',_null = 'color:magenta',_key = 'color:red';json = json.replace(/("(\\u[a-zA-Z0-9]{4}|\\[^u]|[^\\"])*"(\s*:)?|\b(true|false|null)\b|-?\d+(?:\.\d*)?(?:[eE][+\-]?\d+)?)/g, function (match) {var style = _number;if (/^"/.test(match)) {if (/:$/.test(match)) {style = _key;} else {style = _string;}} else if (/true|false/.test(match)) {style = _boolean;} else if (/null/.test(match)) {style = _null;}arr.push(style);arr.push('');return '%c' + match + '%c';});arr.unshift(json);console.log.apply(console, arr);};void(0);
Usage:
var obj = {a:1, 'b':'foo', c:[false,null, {d:{e:1.3e5}}]};
JSONstringify(obj);
Edit: I just tried to escape the % symbol with this line, after the variables declaration:
json = json.replace(/%/g, '%%');
But I find out that Chrome is not supporting % escaping in the console. Strange... Maybe this will work in the future.
Cheers!