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

I had a similar problem just now and my solution might help. I'm using an iframe to upload and convert an xml file to json and send it back behind the scenes, and Chrome was adding some garbage to the incoming data that only would show up intermittently and cause the "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token o" error.

I was accessing the iframe data like this:

$('#load-file-iframe').contents().text()

which worked fine on localhost, but when I uploaded it to the server it stopped working only with some files and only when loading the files in a certain order. I don't really know what caused it, but this fixed it. I changed the line above to

$('#load-file-iframe').contents().find('body').text()

once I noticed some garbage in the HTML response.

Long story short check your raw HTML response data and you might turn something up.