diff --git a/src/services/outliningElementsCollector.ts b/src/services/outliningElementsCollector.ts
index 90c53d47561..9d590ffef61 100644
--- a/src/services/outliningElementsCollector.ts
+++ b/src/services/outliningElementsCollector.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,17 @@ namespace ts.OutliningElementsCollector {
             if (span) out.push(span);
 
             depthRemaining--;
-            n.forEachChild(walk);
+            if (isIfStatement(n) && isIfStatement(n.elseStatement)) {
+                // Consider an 'else if' to be on the same depth as the 'if'.
+                walk(n.expression);
+                walk(n.thenStatement);
+                depthRemaining++;
+                walk(n.elseStatement);
+                depthRemaining--;
+            }
+            else {
+                n.forEachChild(walk);
+            }
             depthRemaining++;
         });
     }
diff --git a/tests/cases/fourslash/getOutliningSpansDepthElseIf.ts b/tests/cases/fourslash/getOutliningSpansDepthElseIf.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1e349e5b190
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/cases/fourslash/getOutliningSpansDepthElseIf.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+/// <reference path="fourslash.ts"/>
+
+// Tests that each 'else if' does not count towards a higher nesting depth.
+
+////if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else if (1)[| {
+////    1;
+////}|] else[| {
+////    1;
+////}|]
+
+verify.outliningSpansInCurrentFile(test.ranges());