For loop code

Topic

Using 'for' loop in javascript?
I want to execute the same set of statements numerous time based on a incremental or decremental value?

Explanation

for LOOP:
As we state it, for loop is a looping syntax.
A set of statements are executed as a loop until a condition is satisfied, the condition is based on an incremental or decremental counter. In other words "Looping statements in javascript are used to execute the same set of code a specified number of times".

Syntax:
for(intialvalue; condition; increment)
{
// set of statements that will be executed
}

As defined in the syntax, for loop takes three parameters, the initial value (e.g i=0), condition - the statements inside "for" will be executed until this condition is satisfied (e.g i<7), increment - this is where we set the initial value to be increased or decreased after each loop.
All the three parameters are separated by semicolon ";".

For an example, we will consider a situation where we want to add all numbers between one and ten.

Example Code:
<script language="javascript">
var i=0; var total=0;
for(i=1; i<11; i++)
{
total = total+i;
}
document.write("--------- The total ------: "+total);
</script>

Result:

The example worked as follows,
a) Initially we created the for loop by setting variable i as 1.
b) then we set the condition that the loop should execute till i is less than 11 (i<11).
c) We made the variable to be incremented at the end of each loop (i++)

First loop: i=0, i<11 is true so the statement is executed, now the total becomes 0+1=1 and i is incremented to 2.

Second loop: now i=1, i<11 is true so the statement is executed, now the total becomes 1+2=3 and i is incremented to 2.

this continues till i=11
Last loop: now i=11, i<11 becomes false and the loop ends here.

Note: i++ increments the value at the end on the loop, while ++i to increase the value of i at the start of the loop.