JavaScript Tutorial ✦

Break Statement

🔁 What is the break statement?

The break statement is used to stop a loop right away when a certain condition is true.

🧠 Example:

Imagine you have a for loop that counts numbers from 1 to 10.
But you want to stop the loop when the number reaches 6.

💻 Code:

for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  if (i == 5) {
    break; // stops the loop when i reaches 5 — till 0 to 4 the loop will work
  }
}

📌 What happens here?

  • The loop starts from i = 0
  • It runs again and again, increasing i by 1 each time
  • When i becomes 5, the if (i == 5) condition becomes true
  • The break statement runs → 💥 loop stops immediately
  • It won’t go up to 10, it just stops at 5

✅ So instead of going through all the numbers from 1 to 10,
the loop ends early because of the break statement.

for (let i = 0; i < =10; i++) {
  if (i === 6) {
  break;
   }
  console.log(i);
}