In jQuery, I am returning HTML in a JSON result, what do I have to escape?

Question

In my Ajax request (using jQuery) I am returning a JSON response.

So json.Html will have a string of HTML I want to append inside a div.

On the server side,

Answer 1

If you are using PHP json_encode does the trick for you:

$htmlSnippet = '';
return json_encode(array("html" => $htmlSnippet));

In jQuery you either declare the dataType 'json' (see answer above) or decoding by jQuery.parseJSON