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How to Display JavaScript Objects?

Displaying a JavaScript object will output [object Object].

Example
const person = {

  name: "John",

  age: 30,

  city: "New York"

};

document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = person;

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Some common solutions to display JavaScript objects are:

Displaying the Object Properties by name

Displaying the Object Properties in a Loop
Displaying the Object using Object.values()
Displaying the Object using JSON.stringify()

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Example

const person = {

  name: "John",

  age: 30,

  city: "New York"

};

document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =

person.name + "," + person.age + "," + person.city;

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Displaying the Object in a Loop

The properties of an object can be collected in a loop:

Example
const person = {

  name: "John",

  age: 30,

  city: "New York"

};

let txt = "";

for (let x in person) {

txt += person[x] + " ";

};

document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = txt;

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You must use person[x] in the loop.

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Using Object.values()
Any JavaScript object can be converted to an array using Object.values() :

const person = {

  name: "John",

  age: 30,

  city: "New York"

};

const myArray = Object.values(person);

myArray is now a JavaScript array, ready to be displayed:

Example

const person = {

  name: "John",

  age: 30,

  city: "New York"

};

const myArray = Object.values(person);

document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = myArray;

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Object.values() is supported in all major browsers since 2016.

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Using JSON.stringify()
Any JavaScript object can be stringified (converted to a string) with the JavaScript function
JSON.stringify() :

const person = {

  name: "John",

  age: 30,

  city: "New York"

};

let myString = JSON.stringify(person);

myString is now a JavaScript string, ready to be displayed:

Example

const person = {

  name: "John",

  age: 30,

  city: "New York"

};

let myString = JSON.stringify(person);

document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = myString;

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The result will be a string following the JSON notation:

{"name":"John","age":50,"city":"New York"}

JSON.stringify() is included in JavaScript and supported in all major browsers.

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const person = {

  name: "John",

  today: new Date()

};

let myString = JSON.stringify(person);

document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = myString;

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Stringify Functions
JSON.stringify will not stringify functions:

Example

const person = {

  name: "John",

  age: function () {return 30;}

};

let myString = JSON.stringify(person);

document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = myString;

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This can be "fixed" if you convert the functions into strings before stringifying.

Example

const person = {

  name: "John",

  age: function () {return 30;}

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person.age = person.age.toString();

let myString = JSON.stringify(person);

document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = myString;

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Stringify Arrays
It is also possible to stringify JavaScript arrays:

Example

const arr = ["John", "Peter", "Sally", "Jane"];

let myString = JSON.stringify(arr);

document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = myString;

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The result will be a string following the JSON notation:

["John","Peter","Sally","Jane"]

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