title: jQuery parseJSON
body: <p>Receiving this error ("JSON.parse: unexpected character") when I try to parse a JSON validated string. It works perfectly when I remove the characters that need escaped (style="width:400px;"). What am I missing? Is there a unique way to escape characters before you use parseJSON?</p>
  
  <pre><code>var $cookieString = '{"youTabItems": { "youTab-001": &lt;p style=\"width:400px;\"&gt;Welcome to my test&lt;/p&gt;, "youTab-002": "test02Value", "youTab-003": "test03Value" }}';
  
  var $myCookieString = $.parseJSON($cookieString);
  
  logThis($myCookieString);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong></p>
  
  <p>I was able to get the majority of it working, until I started saving / retrieving from cookies. Right now, its cutting the content off after the semicolon...any thoughts on this? I'm using 3 functions I found on quirsmode.com for the cookie functionality (shown below).</p>
  
  <pre><code>        function setCookie(name, value, days) { var date, expires; if (days) { date = new Date(); date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)); expires = "; expires=" + date.toGMTString(); } else { expires = ""; } document.cookie = name + "=" + value + expires + "; path=/"; }
          function getCookie(name) { var nameEQ = name + "=", ca = document.cookie.split(';'), c, i; for (i = 0; i &lt; ca.length; i++) { c = ca[i]; while (c.charAt(0) === ' ') { c = c.substring(1, c.length); } if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) === 0) { return c.substring(nameEQ.length, c.length); } } return null; }
          function eraseCookie(name) { setCookie(name, "", -1); }
  
          var cookieObject = {"youTabItems": { "youTab-001": "&lt;p style=\"width:400px;\"&gt;Welcome to my test&lt;/p&gt;", "youTab-002": "test02Value", "youTab-003": "test03Value" }};
          var cookieString = JSON.stringify($cookieVal);
          setCookie('youTabItems', cookieString, 28);
  </code></pre>