---
id: javascript-continue
title: "JavaScript Continue"
category: "Frontend"
status: "draft"
verification_status: "conceptual"
canonical_id: ""
aliases: ["continue statement", "continue keyword", "JS continue", "continue label", "labeled continue"]
duplicate_of: ""
source_trust_level: "B"
confidence_score: 0.89
created_at: 2026-06-23
updated_at: 2026-06-23
review_reason: ""
merge_history: []
tags: ["javascript", "js", "web", "frontend", "w3schools", "loops", "continue", "labels"]
raw_sources: ["https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_continue.asp"]
applied_in: []
github_commit: ""
---

# [[JavaScript Continue]]

## 🎯 한 줄 통찰 (One-line insight)
The `continue` statement skips the current iteration of a loop and moves processing on to the next one — and together with `break` it is one of the only two JavaScript statements that can "jump out of" a code block. [S1]

## 🧠 핵심 개념 (Core concepts)
- **`continue` skips one iteration** — it skips the remaining code in the current iteration and moves processing to the next iteration of the loop. [S1]
- **Labels name statements** — a label provides a name for a statement or a block of statements, allowing them to be referenced for program flow control, particularly in loops. [S1]
- **Label syntax** — a label is an identifier followed by a colon (`:`) that precedes a statement or a block of code. [S1]
- **`continue labelname`** — `continue` can target a labeled loop, controlling which loop continues in nested loops. [S1]
- **Only two jump-out statements** — `break` and `continue` are the only JavaScript statements that can "jump out of" a code block. [S1]

## 🧩 추출된 패턴 (Extracted patterns)
- **Guard-and-skip** — inside a loop, test a condition (`if (i === 3)`) and call `continue` to skip processing for that one value while keeping the loop running. [S1]
- **Label a loop, then continue it** — prefix a loop with `labelname:` and use `continue labelname;` to decide, from inside a nested loop, which enclosing loop to advance. [S1]

## 📖 세부 내용 (Details)
**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. [S1]
```javascript
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 for program flow control, particularly in loops. A label is an identifier followed by a colon (`:`). [S1]

A label precedes a statement:
```javascript
labelname: statement;
```
A label precedes a block of code:
```javascript
labelname: {
  statements
}
```

**Continue to Labelname**
The syntax for continuing a labeled loop is: [S1]
```javascript
continue labelname;
```

Continuing the outer loop (`loop1`) from inside the inner loop: [S1]
```javascript
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;
   }
}
```

Continuing the inner loop (`loop2`) instead: [S1]
```javascript
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. [S1]

## 🛠️ 적용 사례 (Applied in summary)
The page's own snippets are the canonical applied examples — skipping the value 3 in a `for` loop, and using labeled `continue loop1` / `continue loop2` to control which loop advances in a nested-loop scenario. No external project/commit applications found in the source.

## 💻 코드 패턴 (Code patterns)
Skip one iteration with `continue`:
```javascript
for (let i = 1; i < 10; i++) {
  if (i === 3) { continue; }
  text += "The number is " + i + "<br>";
}
```
Continue a labeled outer loop from a nested loop:
```javascript
loop1: for (let j = 1; j < 5; j++) {
  loop2: for (let i = 1; i < 5; i++) {
    if (i === 3) { continue loop1; }
    text += i;
   }
}
```

## ⚖️ 모순 및 업데이트 (Contradictions & updates)
No contradictions found in the source.

## ✅ 검증 상태 및 신뢰도
- **상태:** draft
- **검증 단계:** conceptual (실제 적용 사례 발견 시 applied/validated로 승격 가능)
- **출처 신뢰도:** B (W3Schools — widely used educational reference, not a primary standards body)
- **신뢰 점수:** 0.89
- **중복 검사 결과:** 신규 생성 (New discovery)

## 🔗 지식 그래프 (Knowledge Graph)
- **상위/루트:** [[JavaScript Tutorial]]
- **관련 개념:** [[JavaScript Break]], [[JavaScript Control Flow]], [[JavaScript For Loop]], [[JavaScript While Loop]]
- **참조 맥락:** Referenced whenever a loop needs to skip selected iterations or control nested-loop flow with labels.

## 📚 출처 (Sources)
- [S1] W3Schools — JavaScript Continue — https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_continue.asp

## 📝 변경 이력 (Change history)
- 2026-06-23: Initial draft synthesized from the W3Schools "JavaScript Continue" page (Astra wiki-curation, P-Reinforce v3.1 format).