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Javascript allows you to use loops to execute the same block of code a specified number of times while a condition is true.
In javascript there are two different kind of loops: for loops and while loops.
The javascript code below shows you the for loop in action.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>WebDevelopmentTutorials.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
for (count=1; counter<=10; count++)
document.write("I can count to " + count + "<br />");
</script>
</body>
</html>
The javascript code above displays: