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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Simplify Repetitive Tasks with Loops Complete the Loop

sami thakur
sami thakur
970 Points
Posted by sami thakur
sami thakur
970 Points

why does this keep crashing my browser???

im trying to take this code to see whats wrong with it, and whenever i use workspace, and open this code, it crashes my browser, wether it mozilla or firefox

script.js 
var counter = 1;
while (10) {
    document.write("<p>Now in loop #" + counter + "</p>");
    counter + 1;
}

1 Answer

Patrik Horváth
Patrik Horváth
11,110 Points
Patrik Horváth
Patrik Horváth
11,110 Points

while (counter < 10) and counter++; not counter +1 :)

your while is like while 10 = 10 xD its always TRUE so INFINITY LOOP :)

sami thakur
sami thakur
970 Points
sami thakur
sami thakur
970 Points

oh ok xD, ty i was really confused for a bit