In this example we load the data using the data option. As you can see, the data is an array of objects.
<div id="tree1"></div>
var data = [ { label: 'node1', children: [ { label: 'child1' }, { label: 'child2' } ] }, { label: 'node2', children: [ { label: 'child3' } ] } ]; $('#tree1').tree({ data: data });