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An identifier and statement that passes control to the code after the identifier.

Description

The label statement allows us to code a label identifier that we can pass control flow to from a break or continue statement.

• For the break statement, label can be used with any labelled statement.
• For the continue statement, label can be used with for, while and do....while loops.

Syntax

Parameters

Examples

The code below shows an example of the label statement used with continue.

// execute the loop until loop condition is false.
for (var i=1; i<3; i++) {
  atLabel:

  for (var k=1; k<3; k++) {
    
    if (k == 2) {
      continue atLabel; 
    }
    
    alert('The i variable is = ' + i + ' and k variable is = ' + k);
  }
}

alert('left for loop');

Related Tutorials

JavaScript Intermediate Tutorials - Lesson 4 - While and Do....While Loops
JavaScript Intermediate Tutorials - Lesson 5 - For Loops

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