Question

I am trying to create a Javascript template with tables and I want to replace the values with JSON data. But I am having a hard time replacing the template data with JSON. maybe I am confusing you but http://jsfiddle.net/k6pJz/ is where I am. All your help is highly appreciated.

Answer 1

Fixed: http://jsfiddle.net/k6pJz/10/

This code had multiple syntax errors, and malformed JSON. And would still not have worked afte that. To name a few:

• JSON had a smart quote ” instead of the only valid JSON quote character “.
• JSON was missing the last closing quote
• You had had a receiver less method call after a line with a semi colon which doesn’t work at all. foo.innerHTML; .replace('a', 'b')
• Your second regex does not start with a / character.
• You never reassigned the value of the parsed template back to the .data element.

Lastly, you may want to look into some templating libraries like the one built into jQuery or Mustache. Thats only two but there are tons, and they make your life much easier.