Section 2.3. Whitespace and Line Breaks

2.3. Whitespace and Line Breaks

JavaScript ignores spaces, tabs, and newlines that appear between tokens in programs. Because you can use spaces, tabs, and newlines freely in your programs, you are free to format and indent your programs in a neat and consistent way that makes the code easy to read and understand. Note, however, that there is one minor restriction on the placement of line breaks; it is described in the following section.