<pclass="arguement"><strong>json</strong>The JSON string to parse.</p>
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<p>Passing in a malformed JSON string will result in an exception being thrown. For example, the following are all malformed JSON strings:</p>
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<code>{test: 1}</code> (test does not have double quotes around it).</li>
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<code>{'test': 1}</code> ('test' is using single quotes instead of double quotes).</li>
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<p>Additionally if you pass in nothing, an empty string, null, or undefined, 'null' will be returned from parseJSON. Where the browser provides a native implementation of <code>JSON.parse</code>, jQuery uses it to parse the string. For details on the JSON format, see <ahref="http://json.org/">http://json.org/</a>.