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title: Avoid Using For Statements Without Using Curly Braces
description: "Impact Area Manageability Severity Medium Affected Element Lightning ## Rule ID **SF-0061** ## Impact Not including braces in conditional and loop statements may cause unexpected behavior. ## Remediation Use braces to surround all code blocks. ### Time to fix 30…"
url: "https://community-staging.qualityclouds.com/qcdocs/qc/pmd-rules/avoid-using-for-statements-without-using-curly-braces/"
updated: "2025-03-21"
category: PMD Rules
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# Avoid Using For Statements Without Using Curly Braces

Impact Area

Manageability

           Severity

Medium

           Affected Element

Lightning

## Rule ID

**SF-0061**

## Impact

Not including braces in conditional and loop statements may cause unexpected behavior.

## Remediation

Use braces to surround all code blocks.

### Time to fix

30 min

## References

See the PMD documentation article: [ForLoopsMustUseBraces](https://pmd.github.io/latest/pmd_rules_ecmascript_codestyle.html#forloopsmustusebraces).