The John–Nirenberg spaces \(JN_p\) are generalizations of the space of bounded mean oscillation BMO with \(JN_\infty =BMO\) . Their vanishing subspaces \(VJN_p\) and \(CJN_p\) are defined in similar ways as VMO and CMO, which are subspaces of BMO. As our main result, we prove that \(VJN_p\) and \(CJN_p\) coincide by showing that certain Morrey type integrals of \(JN_p\) functions tend to zero for small and large cubes. We also show that \(JN_{p,q}(\mathbb {R}^n) =L^p(\mathbb {R}^n) / \mathbb {R}\) , if \(p = q\) .