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			STATEMENT: continue continue [label] The continue statement is used to restart a while, do...while, for or label statement. In a while loop it jumps back to the condition. In the following example the code produces the numbers 1 thru 10 but skips the number 7: Code: var i = 0 while (i < 10) { i++; if (i==7) continue; document.write(i + ".<BR>"); } ...while in a for loop it jumps back to the update expression, as in the next example which lists all the elements of the array 'drink' except for when the array index equals 2 (Note: since the array indexing starts at zero, index 2 is the 3rd element in the array): Code: for(i=0; i<4; i++) { if (i==2) continue; document.write(drink[i]); } It can also be used with a label as in the next example which displays an outer and inner count, but limits the inner count to 3 more than the outer: Code: count_loop: for(i=0; i<3; i++) { document.write("<BR>" + "outer " + i + ": "); for(j=0; j<10; j++) { document.write("inner " + j + " "); if(j==i+3) continue count_loop; } }