JSON Escape / JSON Unescape Tool

How JSON Escapes Special Characters and Control Characters

JSON escape tool converts JSON to string online by escaping special reserved characters. Additionally, it also unescapes string to reverse the transformation. Generally, escape characters replace existing characters with new & provided characters, which works best without throwing any error at runtime. Escapes characters of a UTF-8 encoded Unicode string using JSON-style escape sequences. The utility escape plain JSON to escaped html which helps to show html text in JSON in <pre> tag.

How does JSON Escape Work?

• Type, paste, or upload your text data into the input box.
• Click 'Escape' or 'Unescape' your code.
  JSON Escape or JSON Unescape converter
• After you have converted your data, you can "Download" or "Copy to Clipboard".
• You can paste the code into your source code or text file.

What Characters are Replaced?

When you have a JSON string and need to work with it you will need to encode the string to allow parsing.
The following characters are reserved in JSON and need to be correctly escaped for use in strings:

• Horizontal Tab is replaced with \t
• Vertical Tab is replaced with \v
• Null char is replaced with \0
• Backspace is replaced with \b
• Form feed is replaced with \f
• Newline is replaced with \n
• Carriage return is replaced with \r
• Double quote is replaced with \"
• Backslash is replaced with \\

All other characters passes through unchanged. Generally, alphanumeric characters 'a' through 'z, '0' through '9' remain the same.

JSON Escape Example

Plain JSON Before:

{
  "name": "Mary Smith",
  "email": "mary.smith@email.com",
  "site": "www.codersTool.com"
}

Escape JSON After:

{\n  \"name\": \"Mary Smith\",\n  \"email\": \"mary.smith@email.com\",\n  \"site\": \"www.codersTool.com\"\n}