How to break out of jQuery each Loop

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How do I break out of a jQuery each loop  I have tried   return false   In the loop but this did not work  Any ideas  Update 9 5 2020 I put the return false  in the wrong place  When I put it inside the loop everything worked

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I came across the situation where I met a condition that broke the loop  however the code after the  each   function still executed  I then set a flag to  true  with an immediate check for the flag after the  each   function to ensure the code that followed was not executed        groupName   each function         if   this  text      groupname           alert  This group already exists            breakOut   true          return false            if breakOut        breakOut   false      return false

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According to the documentation return false  should do the job       We can break the   each   loop      by making the callback function   return false    Return false in the callback   function callback indexInArray  valueOfElement      var booleanKeepGoing     this        valueOfElement  casted to Object     return booleanKeepGoing     optional  unless false                                and want to stop looping     BTW  continue works like this      Returning non-false is the same as a continue statement in a for loop  it will skip immediately to the next iteration

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To break a   each or   selector  each loop  you have to return false in the loop callback   Returning true skips to the next  iteration  equivalent to a continue in a normal loop     each array  function key  value         if value      foo             return false     breaks               or    selector  each function       if  condition        return false

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I use this way  for example     document  on  click     save   function          var cont   true          field   each function              if    this  val                         alert  Please fill out all fields                cont   false              return false                        if  cont     false            return false               commands block         if cont isn t false runs commands block

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I know its quite an old question but I didn t see any answer  which clarify that why and when its possible to break with return   I would like to explain it with 2 simple examples   1  Example   In this case  we have a simple iteration and we want to break with return true  if we can find the three   function canFindThree         for var i   0  i  lt  5  i              if i     3               return true                      if we call this function  it will simply return the true   2  Example In this case  we want to iterate with jquery s each function  which takes anonymous function as parameter   function canFindThree          var result   false         each  1  2  3  4  5   function key  value             if value     3                result   true              return false    This will only exit the anonymous function and stop the iteration immediatelly                         return result    This will exit the function with return true

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I created a Fiddle for the answer to this question because the accepted answer is incorrect plus this is the first StackOverflow thread returned from Google regarding this question   To break out of a   each you must use return false   Here is a Fiddle proving it   http   jsfiddle net 9XqRy

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each  uses callback function  Callback function execute irrespective of the calling function so it is not possible to return to calling function from callback function   use for loop if you have to stop the loop execution based on some condition and remain in to the same function

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