jsf - How to get the current page number of dataTable using Jquery -

i have tried solutions provided in rich:datatable paging - marking visited pages of rich:datascroller didn't work rich faces 4.3.4.

i have tried page attribute of data scroller. here's code implementing page attribute of datascroller.

 <h:form id="mainform">      <rich:datascroller for="itemdatatable" maxpages="30" execute="itemdatatable" page="#{itemscontroller.pageindex}"/>                                       <rich:datatable rowkeyvar="rkvar" rows="15" id="itemdatatable" value="#{itemscontroller.itemdm}" var="r">      <f:facet name="footer">         <h:outputtext id="pagenumberoutputtext" value="#{itemscontroller.pageindex}"/>      </f:facet>         <h:column id="setvalue">             <h:inputtext id="finalitem" valuechangelistener="#{itemscontroller.recalculate()}" value="#{r.items.prices}"/>         </h:column>         ...         ...     <!-- other columns -->      </rich:datatable>     <rich:datascroller for="itemdatatable" maxpages="30" execute="itemdatatable" page="#{itemscontroller.pageindex}"/>                                       </h:form> 

i have respective getters , setters in itemscontroller class , following scope:

@managedbean @viewscoped 

with pageindex intially set 1.

private int pageindex = 1; 

and tried alert current page number using:

alert('you in page : ' + $('#mainform\\:itemdatatable\\:pagenumberoutputtext').val()); 

but alerts 1. outputtext in datatable footer shows 1 if click next page or click other pages.

above all, wanted alert current page number using jquery. dont want use getters , setters this, if possible. wanted know how current page number using jquery.

specify region re-render ajax request update appropriate parts of view. e.g.:

<rich:datascroller render="pagenumberoutputtext"/>