How to use if statement inside JSON? Asked 12 years, 5 months ago Modified 3 years, 6 months ago Viewed 178k times, Yes. The JSON format has a lot of dead-space between elements and is space-insensitive in those regions, so there's no reason why you can't have single or multi-line comments there. Many parsers and minifiers support JSON comments as well, so just make sure your parser supports them., A JSON string must be double-quoted, according to the specs, so you don't need to escape '. If you have to use special character in your JSON string, you can escape it using \ character. See this list of special character used in JSON : \b Backspace (ascii code 08) \f Form feed (ascii code 0C) \n New line \r Carriage return \t Tab \" Double quote \\ Backslash character However, even if it is , 2 In the JSON code to format a SharePoint header you can specify an icon to be used. Does anyone know where the list of usable icons can be found? The code below allows for the select of an icon and defaults to group: "iconName": "Group" What other icons are available and is there a place that lists the available icon names?, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and JSONP ("JSON with padding") formats seems to be very similar and therefore it might be very confusing which MIME type they should be using., The JSON data is an object (basically an associative array). Indexed arrays use square brackets, [0,1,2], while associative arrays use curly braces, {x:1,y:2,z:3}. Any of the data within the outermost object can be either type of array, but the outermost object itself has to use curly braces..