Question

I saw a JSON code on another site as following that was working:

var jquerycssmenu={

fadesettings: {overduration: 350, outduration: 100}

...

}

So I was writing my own code as following but it didn’t work, I don’t know why:

var CityCountry={
    CityCountryOrigin: {City: Vancouver, Country: Canada}
};

Answer 1

Of course it’s incorrect. The difference is that values in that ‘JSON from another site’ are Number literals, but in yours it’s (supposed to be) Strings – hence should be quoted, like this:

var CityCountry = {
    CityCountryOrigin: {
      City:    'Vancouver', 
      Country: 'Canada'
    }
};

Both snippets are not JSON, strictly speaking: they use so-called JavaScript object literals instead.

An object literal is a list of zero or more pairs of property names
and associated values of an object, enclosed in curly braces ({}).