In jQuery, I am returning HTML in a JSON result, what do I have to escape?

Question

In my Ajax request (using jQuery) I am returning a JSON response.

So json.Html will have a string of HTML I want to append inside a div.

On the server side, do I have to escape the HTML at all?

In my MVC action, I am returning:

return Content("{html: ???????}, "application/json");

Answer 1

An alternative solution would be to simply return the HTML and use jQuery's load():

$('#someDiv').load('servershtml.html');

To do it your way though, you would need only to escape double quotes and backslashes.

The specification is very readable and short.