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---
title: continue
slug: Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/continue
page-type: javascript-statement
browser-compat: javascript.statements.continue
sidebar: jssidebar
---
The **`continue`** statement terminates execution of the statements in the current iteration of the current or labeled loop, and continues execution of the loop with the next iteration.
{{InteractiveExample("JavaScript Demo: continue statement")}}
```js interactive-example
let text = "";
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
if (i === 3) {
continue;
}
text += i;
}
console.log(text);
// Expected output: "012456789"
```
## Syntax
```js-nolint
continue;
continue label;
```
- `label` {{optional_inline}}
- : Identifier associated with the label of the statement.
## Description
In contrast to the {{jsxref("Statements/break", "break")}} statement, `continue` does not terminate the execution of the loop entirely, but instead:
- In a {{jsxref("Statements/while", "while")}} or {{jsxref("Statements/do...while", "do...while")}} loop, it jumps back to the condition.
- In a {{jsxref("Statements/for", "for")}} loop, it jumps to the update expression.
- In a {{jsxref("Statements/for...in", "for...in")}}, {{jsxref("Statements/for...of", "for...of")}}, or {{jsxref("Statements/for-await...of", "for await...of")}} loop, it jumps to the next iteration.
The `continue` statement can include an optional label that allows the program to jump to the next iteration of a labeled loop statement instead of the innermost loop. In this case, the `continue` statement needs to be nested within this labeled statement.
A `continue` statement, with or without a following label, cannot be used at the top level of a script, module, function's body, or [static initialization block](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes/Static_initialization_blocks), even when the function or class is further contained within a loop.
## Examples
### Using continue with while
The following example shows a {{jsxref("Statements/while", "while")}} loop that has a `continue` statement that executes when the value of `i` is 3. Thus, `n` takes on the values 1, 3, 7, and 12.
```js
let i = 0;
let n = 0;
while (i < 5) {
i++;
if (i === 3) {
continue;
}
n += i;
}
```
### Using continue with a label
In the following example, a statement labeled `checkIAndJ` contains a statement labeled `checkJ`. If `continue` is encountered, the program continues at the top of the `checkJ` statement. Each time `continue` is encountered, `checkJ` reiterates until its condition returns false. When false is returned, the remainder of the `checkIAndJ` statement is completed.
If `continue` had a label of `checkIAndJ`, the program would continue at the top of the `checkIAndJ` statement.
```js
let i = 0;
let j = 8;
checkIAndJ: while (i < 4) {
console.log(`i: ${i}`);
i += 1;
checkJ: while (j > 4) {
console.log(`j: ${j}`);
j -= 1;
if (j % 2 === 0) continue;
console.log(`${j} is odd.`);
}
console.log(`i = ${i}`);
console.log(`j = ${j}`);
}
```
Output:
```plain
i: 0
// start checkJ
j: 8
7 is odd.
j: 7
j: 6
5 is odd.
j: 5
// end checkJ
i = 1
j = 4
i: 1
i = 2
j = 4
i: 2
i = 3
j = 4
i: 3
i = 4
j = 4
```
### Unsyntactic continue statements
`continue` cannot be used within loops across function boundaries.
```js-nolint example-bad
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
(() => {
continue; // SyntaxError: Illegal continue statement: no surrounding iteration statement
})();
}
```
When referencing a label, the labeled statement must contain the `continue` statement.
```js-nolint example-bad
label: for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
console.log(i);
}
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
continue label; // SyntaxError: Undefined label 'label'
}
```
The labeled statement must be a loop.
```js-nolint example-bad
label: {
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
continue label; // SyntaxError: Illegal continue statement: 'label' does not denote an iteration statement
}
}
```
## Specifications
{{Specifications}}
## Browser compatibility
{{Compat}}
## See also
- {{jsxref("Statements/break", "break")}}
- {{jsxref("Statements/label", "label", "", 1)}}
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