web frontend - How to exit javascript script tags early? -

i have page bunch of .... sections. in 1 of them, half way through , decide want stop, , not run rest of contents of script tag - still run other code segments on page. there way without wrapping entire code segment in function call?

for example:

<script type='text/javascript'>     console.log('1 start');     /* exit here */     console.log('1 end'); </script> <script type='text/javascript'>     console.log('2 start');     console.log('2 end'); </script> 

which should produce output

1 start 2 start 2 end 

and not 1 end.

the obvious answer wrap script in function:

<script type='text/javascript'>     (function(){         console.log('1 start');         return;         console.log('1 end');     })(); </script> 

although best approach, there cases not suitable. question is, other way can done, if any? or if not, why not?

you can use break statement :

breakcode : {    document.write('1 start');    /* exit here */    break breakcode;    document.write('1 end');  }

with label reference, break statement can used jump out of code block

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reference

• break mdn