What does “self” mean in javascript?

Question

I read here that \"self Refers to the current window or form\".

Self does not seem to refer to the current form in this case:

Answer 1

Never, unless I wanted to create a self variable in the scope of a function referring to the context for later reference,

function Constructor() {
    var self = this;
}

You should use this to refer to the element at hand, not self. In global scope though this is a reference to window, and self is also window.