# jQuery.parseJSON

Categories: Utilities

## jQuery.parseJSON( json ) Returns: Object

Description: Takes a well-formed JSON string and returns the resulting JavaScript object.

- #### version added: 1.4.1jQuery.parseJSON( json )

  jsonThe JSON string to parse.

Passing in a malformed JSON string may result in an exception being thrown. For example, the following are all malformed JSON strings:

- `{test: 1}` (test does not have double quotes around it).
- `{'test': 1}` ('test' is using single quotes instead of double quotes).

Additionally if you pass in nothing, an empty string, null, or undefined, 'null' will be returned from parseJSON. Where the browser provides a native implementation of `JSON.parse`, jQuery uses it to parse the string. For details on the JSON format, see http://json.org/.

### Example:

#### Parse a JSON string.

    var obj = jQuery.parseJSON('{"name":"John"}');
    alert( obj.name === "John" );