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JavaScript Continue

Flash cards

Review the key moves

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Core idea

What is the main idea behind JavaScript Continue?

Lesson checks

Practice each idea before moving on

Short Mimo-style checks built from this lesson's code, terms, and sequence.

1Quick choice

Which statement best captures the main point of this lesson?

2Fill blank

Complete the missing token from the example code.

___ (let i = 1; i < 10; i++) {
3Order

Put the learning moves in the order that makes the concept easiest to apply.

The continue statement skips the current iteration in a loop.
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The Continue Statement

The Continue Statement

The continue statement skips the current iteration in a loop.

The remaining code in the iteration is skipped and processing moves to the next iteration.

Example

for (let i = 1; i < 10; i++) {
  if (i === 3) { continue; }
  text += "The number is " + i + "<br>";
}

JavaScript Labels

A label provides a name for a statement, or a block of statements, allowing statements to be referenced to, for program flow control, particularly in loops.

Syntax

A label is an identifier followed by a colon ( : ).

labelname
statement
;

A label precedes a statement or a block of code.

labelname
: {
statements
}

Continue to Labelname

Syntax

continue
labelname
;

Example

let text = "";
loop1: for (let j = 1; j < 5; j++) {
  loop2: for (let i = 1; i < 5; i++) {
    if (i === 3) { continue loop1; }
    text += i;
  }
}

Example

let text = "";
loop1: for (let j = 1; j < 5; j++) {
  loop2: for (let i = 1; i < 5; i++) {
    if (i === 3) { continue
      loop2 ; }
    text += i;
  }
}

break and continue are the only JavaScript statements that can "jump out of" a code block.

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