# Display Text (JSON) on the Dashboard
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-text-json-on-the-dashboard/82587
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [3 November 2023 17:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-text-json-on-the-dashboard/82587 "2023-11-03T17:29:17Z")
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### Author:  [@joerg\_w](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joerg_w)
#### Post date: [3 November 2023 17:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-text-json-on-the-dashboard/82587/1 "2023-11-03T17:29:17Z")
Hi,
I have a MQTT Input and I get several message types and I want to display them using a dashboard node (template widget)
That works for simple text objects quite fine but how can I display more complex JSON objects ?
Is there a way to 'pretty print' the JSON objects ?
Thank you.
Joerg
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### Author:  [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)
#### Post date: [3 November 2023 17:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-text-json-on-the-dashboard/82587/2 "2023-11-03T17:30:29Z")
Yes, pass the object through a JSON node and select fomat option
[edit] Set the mqtt node to output a parse js object first if it outputs a string JSON, or use two JSON nodes and have the last one format the JSON.
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### Author:  [@joerg\_w](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joerg_w)
#### Post date: [3 November 2023 17:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-text-json-on-the-dashboard/82587/3 "2023-11-03T17:48:36Z")
Thanks - did this already - the template node displays [Object object] on the dashboard.
J.
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### Author:  [@marcus-j-davies](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/marcus-j-davies)
#### Post date: [3 November 2023 17:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-text-json-on-the-dashboard/82587/4 "2023-11-03T17:51:11Z")
Are you using this option? - as well as the format checkbox?
and use `{{{payload}}}` in the template node (3 brackets each side)
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### Author:  [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)
#### Post date: [3 November 2023 18:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-text-json-on-the-dashboard/82587/5 "2023-11-03T18:01:43Z")
You would also need to add `JSON
` html tags , as html will remove additional white space, when displayed in browser.
e.g.
```auto
[{"id":"b248cc407c9cd936","type":"inject","z":"b779de97.b1b46","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"json_format","payload":"{\"one\":1,\"two\":2}","payloadType":"json","x":240,"y":3360,"wires":[["ef969c34d55367c5"]]},{"id":"ef969c34d55367c5","type":"mqtt out","z":"b779de97.b1b46","name":"","topic":"","qos":"","retain":"","respTopic":"","contentType":"","userProps":"","correl":"","expiry":"","broker":"e8ba3ef5.22f4a8","x":470,"y":3360,"wires":[]},{"id":"94a869aa8940d442","type":"mqtt in","z":"b779de97.b1b46","name":"","topic":"json_format","qos":"2","datatype":"auto-detect","broker":"e8ba3ef5.22f4a8","nl":false,"rap":true,"rh":0,"inputs":0,"x":110,"y":3420,"wires":[["5aa3a972933bac51","d345c7e092c712f0"]]},{"id":"5aa3a972933bac51","type":"json","z":"b779de97.b1b46","name":"","property":"payload","action":"","pretty":true,"x":290,"y":3420,"wires":[["1a27822f47b98d37"]]},{"id":"1a27822f47b98d37","type":"ui_template","z":"b779de97.b1b46","group":"4f791fdc1745d3d9","name":"","order":2,"width":0,"height":0,"format":"' + msg.payload\" + ''>
","storeOutMessages":true,"fwdInMessages":true,"resendOnRefresh":true,"templateScope":"local","className":"","x":460,"y":3420,"wires":[[]]},{"id":"d345c7e092c712f0","type":"debug","z":"b779de97.b1b46","name":"debug 2453","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":330,"y":3460,"wires":[]},{"id":"e8ba3ef5.22f4a8","type":"mqtt-broker","name":"testb","broker":"192.168.1.25","port":"1883","clientid":"","autoConnect":true,"usetls":false,"compatmode":false,"protocolVersion":"4","keepalive":"60","cleansession":true,"birthTopic":"","birthQos":"0","birthRetain":"false","birthPayload":"","birthMsg":{},"closeTopic":"","closeQos":"0","closePayload":"","closeMsg":{},"willTopic":"","willQos":"0","willPayload":"","willMsg":{},"userProps":"","sessionExpiry":""},{"id":"4f791fdc1745d3d9","type":"ui_group","name":"micro","tab":"c954274bbed7292e","order":1,"disp":false,"width":"18","collapse":false,"className":""},{"id":"c954274bbed7292e","type":"ui_tab","name":"Solar","icon":"dashboard","order":1,"disabled":false,"hidden":false}]
```
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### Author:  [@joerg\_w](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joerg_w)
#### Post date: [3 November 2023 18:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-text-json-on-the-dashboard/82587/6 "2023-11-03T18:11:20Z")
Great - works now !!!
Thank you @E1cid @marcus-j-davies
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [3 November 2023 19:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-text-json-on-the-dashboard/82587/7 "2023-11-03T19:44:31Z")
If you want a prettier print, take a look at this:
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Together with this:
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It is the highlighter that I use inside uibuilder.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [3 December 2023 19:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-text-json-on-the-dashboard/82587/8 "2023-12-03T19:45:19Z")
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