How can I read a JSON in the script-tag from JavaScript?

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I would change the script declaration to this:

<script id="data" type="application/json">{"org": 10, "items":["one","two"]}</script>

Note type and id fields. After that

var data = JSON.parse(document.getElementById('data').textContent);

will work just fine in all browsers.

The type="application/json" is needed to prevent browser from parsing it while loading.

And the reason why we use textContent instead of innerHTML or innerText to read the raw Json text is because innerHTML tries to parse the contents as HTML which will lead to slower performance and possible parsing bugs and XSS attacks, and innerText won’t grab the raw text and will instead look for human-visible text, whereas textContent grabs the pure text as-is (which is what you want). See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/textContent for more details about why innerHTML and innerText are bad.

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