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title: br
slug: WebAssembly/Reference/Control_flow/br

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The br statement branches to a loop, block, or if.

Other variants of br are br_if for branching on condition, and br_table for branching to different blocks based on an argument.

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Syntax

;; label the loop so that it can be branched to
(loop $my_loop

  ;; branch to the loop.
  ;; most of the time you'll want to put this in an if statement and only branch on condition,
  ;; otherwise you have an infinite loop.
  br $my_loop

)

Instruction	Binary opcode
br	0x0c
br_if	0x0d
br_table	0x0e