JavaScript loop through JSON array?

Question

I am trying to loop through the following json array:

{
  "id": "1",
  "msg": "hi",
  "tid": "2013-05-05 23:35",
  "fromWho": "hello1@email.se"
}, {
  "id": "2",
  "msg": "there",
  "tid": "2013-05-05 23:45",
  "fromWho": "hello2@email.se"
}

And have tried the following

for (var key in data) {
   if (data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
      console.log(data[key].id);
   }
}

But for some reason I'm only getting the first part, id 1 values.

Any ideas?

Are there some missing brackets ? It doesn't really look like an array, now. And did you parse the JSON ? — Denys Séguret, Aug 14 '13 at 17:19
is it an array of objects? (are you missing [] or they are not there?) — lpiepiora, Aug 14 '13 at 17:19
Possible duplicate of [Loop through an array in JavaScript](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3010840/loop-through-an-array-in-javascript) — Heretic Monkey, Nov 02 '17 at 20:21
Please change the title, this is to iterate through a JSON object properties, not an array — Taylored Web Sites, Jan 24 '19 at 15:21

score 300 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 02 '22 at 20:32

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Your JSON should look like this:

let json = [{
    "id" : "1", 
    "msg"   : "hi",
    "tid" : "2013-05-05 23:35",
    "fromWho": "hello1@email.se"
},
{
    "id" : "2", 
    "msg"   : "there",
    "tid" : "2013-05-05 23:45",
    "fromWho": "hello2@email.se"
}];

You can loop over the Array like this:

for(let i = 0; i < json.length; i++) {
    let obj = json[i];

    console.log(obj.id);
}

Or like this (suggested from Eric) be careful with IE support

json.forEach(function(obj) { console.log(obj.id); });

edited Jun 02 '22 at 20:32

Daniel L. VanDenBosch

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Niklas

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Or more concisely, `json.forEach(function(obj) { console.log(obj.id); });` – Eric Aug 14 '13 at 17:26
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Unless on IE8 (as usual, everyone but IE ;) ) – lpiepiora Aug 14 '13 at 17:29
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I think that example can be confuse, because var json is not a JSON object, but an array. In this case, .forEach works well, but when you use a json object, it doesn't work. – mold May 04 '18 at 15:30

score 39 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 14 '13 at 17:30

There's a few problems in your code, first your json must look like :

var json = [{
"id" : "1", 
"msg"   : "hi",
"tid" : "2013-05-05 23:35",
"fromWho": "hello1@email.se"
},
{
"id" : "2", 
"msg"   : "there",
"tid" : "2013-05-05 23:45",
"fromWho": "hello2@email.se"
}];

Next, you can iterate like this :

for (var key in json) {
if (json.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
  alert(json[key].id);
  alert(json[key].msg);
}
}

And it gives perfect result.

See the fiddle here : http://jsfiddle.net/zrSmp/

score 36 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 28 '19 at 13:41

try this

var json = [{
    "id" : "1", 
    "msg"   : "hi",
    "tid" : "2013-05-05 23:35",
    "fromWho": "hello1@email.se"
},
{
    "id" : "2", 
    "msg"   : "there",
    "tid" : "2013-05-05 23:45",
    "fromWho": "hello2@email.se"
}];

json.forEach((item) => {
  console.log('ID: ' + item.id);
  console.log('MSG: ' + item.msg);
  console.log('TID: ' + item.tid);
  console.log('FROMWHO: ' + item.fromWho);
});

score 18 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 10 '17 at 16:24

var arr = [
  {
  "id": "1",
  "msg": "hi",
  "tid": "2013-05-05 23:35",
  "fromWho": "hello1@email.se"
  }, {
  "id": "2",
  "msg": "there",
  "tid": "2013-05-05 23:45",
  "fromWho": "hello2@email.se"
  }
];

forEach method for easy implementation.

arr.forEach(function(item){
  console.log('ID: ' + item.id);
  console.log('MSG: ' + item.msg);
  console.log('TID: ' + item.tid);
  console.log('FROMWHO: ' + item.fromWho);
});

score 12 · Answer 5 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

Since i already started looking into it:

var data = [{
    "id": "1",
    "msg": "hi",
    "tid": "2013-05-05 23:35",
    "fromWho": "hello1@email.se"
}, {
    "id": "2",
    "msg": "there",
    "tid": "2013-05-05 23:45",
    "fromWho": "hello2@email.se"
}]

And this function

var iterateData =function(data){   for (var key in data) {
       if (data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
          console.log(data[key].id);
       }
    }};

You can call it like this

iterateData(data); // write 1 and 2 to the console

Update after Erics comment

As eric pointed out a for in loop for an array can have unexpected results. The referenced question has a lengthy discussion about pros and cons.

Test with for(var i ...

But it seems that the follwing is quite save:

for(var i = 0; i < array.length; i += 1)

Although a test in chrome had the following result

var ar = [];
ar[0] = "a"; 
ar[1] = "b";
ar[4] = "c";

function forInArray(ar){ 
     for(var i = 0; i < ar.length; i += 1) 
        console.log(ar[i]);
}

// calling the function
// returns a,b, undefined, undefined, c, undefined
forInArray(ar);

Test with `.forEach()`

At least in chrome 30 this works as expected

var logAr = function(element, index, array) {
    console.log("a[" + index + "] = " + element);
}
ar.forEach(logAr); // returns a[0] = a, a[1] = b, a[4] = c

Links

see for in at the mdn
the new forEach method
a comment that states that array comprehension makes for in less bad
Array comprehension introduced with javascript 1.7 in firefox 2 (yes 2)

Array comprehensions use `for each`. `for ... in ...` is a language construct for enumerating object keys in an arbitrary order. That is not the right construct for an array. — Eric, Aug 14 '13 at 20:18

score 10 · Answer 6 · edited Jan 28 '19 at 13:00

It is working. I just added square brackets to JSON data. The data is:

var data = [
    { 
        "id": "1",
        "msg": "hi", 
        "tid": "2013-05-05 23:35", 
        "fromWho": "hello1@email.se" 
    }, 
    { 
        "id": "2", 
        "msg": "there", 
        "tid": "2013-05-05 23:45", 
        "fromWho": "hello2@email.se"
    }
]

And the loop is:

for (var key in data) {
   if (data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
         alert(data[key].id);
   }
}

score 8 · Answer 7 · edited Dec 23 '21 at 23:31

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Your data snippet need to be expanded a little, and it has to be this way to be proper JSON. Notice I just include the array name attribute item.

{
  "item": [{
    "id": "1",
    "msg": "hi",
    "tid": "2013-05-05 23:35",
    "fromWho": "hello1@email.se"
  }, {
    "id": "2",
    "msg": "there",
    "tid": "2013-05-05 23:45",
    "fromWho": "hello2@email.se"
  }]
}

Your JavaScript is simply

var objCount = json.item.length;
for (var x = 0; x < objCount; x++) {
  var curitem = json.item[x];
}

edited Dec 23 '21 at 23:31

Ivar

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answered Apr 26 '20 at 18:50

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FYI, there's a typo I think. The `xx++` should be `x++` – Jackie Johnston Nov 05 '20 at 18:29

score 7 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 14 '13 at 17:25

It must be an array if you want to iterate over it. You're very likely missing [ and ].

var x = [{
    "id": "1",
        "msg": "hi",
        "tid": "2013-05-05 23:35",
        "fromWho": "hello1@email.se"
}, {
    "id": "2",
        "msg": "there",
        "tid": "2013-05-05 23:45",
        "fromWho": "hello2@email.se"
}];

var $output = $('#output');
for(var i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
    console.log(x[i].id);
}

Check out this jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/lpiepiora/kN7yZ/

Kami Yang · Answer 9 · 2015-11-12T15:55:42.140

A bit late but i hope i may help others :D

your json needs to look like something Niklas already said. And then here you go:

for(var key in currentObject){
        if(currentObject.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
          console.info(key + ': ' + currentObject[key]);
        }
   }

if you have an Multidimensional array, this is your code:

for (var i = 0; i < multiDimensionalArray.length; i++) {
    var currentObject = multiDimensionalArray[i]
    for(var key in currentObject){
            if(currentObject.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
              console.info(key + ': ' + currentObject[key]);
            }
       }
}

score 5 · Answer 10 · answered Aug 14 '13 at 17:21

Well, all I can see there is that you have two JSON objects, seperated by a comma. If both of them were inside an array ([...]) it would make more sense.

And, if they ARE inside of an array, then you would just be using the standard "for var i = 0..." type of loop. As it is, I think it's going to try to retrieve the "id" property of the string "1", then "id" of "hi", and so on.

score 5 · Answer 11 · answered Jun 18 '21 at 10:49

the very easy way!

var tire_price_data = JSON.parse('[{"qty":"250.0000","price":"0.390000"},{"qty":"500.0000","price":"0.340000"},{"qty":"1000.0000","price":"0.290000"}]'); 
tire_price_data.forEach(function(obj){
    console.log(obj);
    console.log(obj.qty);
    console.log(obj.price);
})

Thank you.

Lime莉茉 · Answer 12 · 2021-08-26T14:32:57.800

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var json = {
    "persons": [
        {"name": "Lili", "age": 23, "is_student": true},
        {"name": "James", "age": 24, "is_student": true},
        {"name": "John", "age": 25, "is_student": false}
    ]
};

for (var key in json.persons) {
    for (var keyName in json.persons[key]) {
        alert(keyName + ': ' + (json.persons[key])[keyName]);
    }
}

//Output: name:Lili, age:23, is_student:true, ...

edited Aug 26 '21 at 14:32

answered Aug 26 '21 at 11:31

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score 2 · Answer 13 · answered Apr 21 '17 at 18:12

A short solution using map and an arrow function

var data = [{
  "id": "1",
  "msg": "hi",
  "tid": "2013-05-05 23:35",
  "fromWho": "hello1@email.se"
}, {
  "id": "2",
  "msg": "there",
  "tid": "2013-05-05 23:45",
  "fromWho": "hello2@email.se"
}];
data.map((item, i) => console.log('Index:', i, 'Id:', item.id));

And to cover the cases when the property "id" is not present use filter:

var data = [{
  "id": "1",
  "msg": "hi",
  "tid": "2013-05-05 23:35",
  "fromWho": "hello1@email.se"
}, {
  "id": "2",
  "msg": "there",
  "tid": "2013-05-05 23:45",
  "fromWho": "hello2@email.se"
}, {
  "msg": "abcde",
  "tid": "2013-06-06 23:46",
  "fromWho": "hello3@email.se"
}];

data.filter(item=>item.hasOwnProperty('id'))
                .map((item, i) => console.log('Index:', i, 'Id:', item.id));

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Dec 23 '21 at 10:39

you can use a for-loop then to get the values you can De-structure them

const arr = [
        {
            id:123,
            desc:"do something",
            isDone:false
        },
        {
            id:124,
            desc:"do something",
            isDone:true
        }
    ]

for(let _i in arr){
    let {id, desc, isDone} = arr[_i]
    // do something
    console.log({id, desc, isDone});
}

JavaScript loop through JSON array?

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Update after Erics comment

Test with for(var i ...

Test with `.forEach()`

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JavaScript loop through JSON array?

14 Answers14

Update after Erics comment

Test with for(var i ...

Test with .forEach()

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Test with `.forEach()`