I think the problem is you have the "department" 3 times in the same hash object,so the last one overrides everything. you should change "departments" to an array and loop through it
>
> >
> > { "departments": {
> > "department": {"ID": 1, "Name": "Physics"},
> > "department": {"ID": 2, "Name": "Chemistry"},
> > "department": {"ID": 3, "Name": "Biology"}
> > }}
> >
> > i tried
> >
> > $.each(json.departments.department, function(i, n) {
> > alert(i + " " + n);
> > });
> >
>
