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JSON Editor Online

Description

JSON Editor Online is a web-based tool to view, edit, and format JSON. It has various modes such as a tree editor, a code editor, and a plain text editor.

The editor can be used as a component in your own web application. The library can be loaded as CommonJS module, AMD module, or as a regular javascript file.

Screenshot

The web application shows two panels side by side: a code editor on the left, and a tree editor on the right. Files and urls can be loaded via the main menu.

Features

Tree editor

Edit, add, move, remove, and duplicate fields and values.
Change type of values.
Sort arrays and objects.
Colorized code.
Search & highlight text in the treeview.
Undo and redo all actions.

Code editor

Format and compact JSON.
Colorized code (powered by Ace).
Inspect JSON (powered by Ace).

Text editor

Format and compact JSON.

Documentation

Install

with npm:

npm install jsoneditor

with bower:

npm install bower

download:

http://jsoneditoronline.org/downloads/

Use

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="jsoneditor/jsoneditor-min.css">
    <script type="text/javascript" src="jsoneditor/jsoneditor-min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="jsoneditor" style="width: 400px; height: 400px;"></div>

    <script type="text/javascript" >
        // create the editor
        var container = document.getElementById("jsoneditor");
        var editor = new jsoneditor.JSONEditor(container);

        // set json
        var json = {
            "Array": [1, 2, 3],
            "Boolean": true,
            "Null": null,
            "Number": 123,
            "Object": {"a": "b", "c": "d"},
            "String": "Hello World"
        };
        editor.set(json);

        // get json
        var json = editor.get();
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Build

The code of the JSON Editor is located in the folder jsoneditor. The code for the web application in app/web. To build the library from sourcecode, run

jake

in the root of the project. This will generate the files jsoneditor.js, jsoneditor.css, and minified versions, and will create a folder build containing the zipped library and the built web application.

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