Can i use continue and break in an if statement without any loops in JAVASCRIPT?

Question

It\'s well-known that break and continue can be used inside a loop:

Answer 1

The answer is different for break (yes) and continue (no).

break

You can use break in an if, yes, if you label the if. I wouldn't, but you can:

foo: if (true) {
    console.log("In if before break");
    break foo;
    console.log("In if after break");
}
console.log("After if");

That outputs

In if before break
After if

This isn't specific to if. You can label any statement, and for those with some kind of body (loops, switch, if, try, with, block, ...), you can use break within the body to break out of it. For instance, here's an example breaking out of a block statement:

foo: {
    console.log("In block before break");
    break foo;
    console.log("In block after break");
}
console.log("After block");

In block before break
After block

continue

You can't use continue with if (not even a labelled one) because if isn't an iteration statement; from the spec.

It is a Syntax Error if this ContinueStatement is not nested, directly or indirectly (but not crossing function boundaries), within an IterationStatement.