- Tags: Conditional, JS Statement, Loop
- Categories: JavaScript Reference, JavaScript Statements, Reference
Quick Reference
The continue statement breaks an iteration in the loop, if a specified condition occurs, and then continues with the next iteration in the loop.
<!-- html element to place output -->
<p id="my_output"></p>
The following has a loop that will output the number starting with 0 and ending with 10. However, there is a condition with a continue statement on line 7 that will stop execution of the loop when i = 4, before printing the 4 to the page, and then continue counting in the loop.
// variable
let text = '';
// loop
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
if (i == 4) {
continue;
}
text += i + '<br>';
}
// output to HTML element
document.getElementById('my_output').innerHTML = text;
Output
0
1
2
3
5
6
7
8
9
Syntax
continue;
// or
continue label_name; //provides a label for easy reference
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