code highlighting apex (Firefox 31) - oracle

Question

The Oracle Application Express code editor is just plain back text on white background. No Code highlighting. Also I can't press "tab" without the textfield loosing focus.
I am using firefox 31 (can't upgrade, rescricted by Admin at work here) Also I can't install plugins. I know you can change css on specific sites using a special folder in firefox ("chrome"-folder / userContent.css). I already used this to change die default size of the textfield, because it was frickin small everytime I opened the edit page.
So do you know any framework or script I can use in Apex ? (I could copy that shit to jsfiddle.net every time but that sucks
(I also found the scratchpad in Firefox, which can run js and jquery. Does that help ?)

Answer 1

[SOLVED]
since you can't use
<script src = "">
etc. in plain js, I had to use loadScript. For css files it was even more complicated, but I got it all working.
This is my code, I run it in scratchpad (firefox). It uses ACE to change a div to an editor with highlighting. When clicking apply I revert the editor-changes in the DOM but keep the text/code.
// Load Ace js
loadScript("http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ace/1.1.01/ace.js", function(){
//initialization code
});
// Load Ace css
var cssId = 'myCss'; // you could encode the css path itself to generate id..
if (!document.getElementById(cssId)){
var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
var link = document.createElement('link');
link.id = cssId;
link.rel = 'stylesheet';
link.type = 'text/css';
link.href = 'http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css';
link.media = 'all';
head.appendChild(link);
}
// change textarea to div
var editorRegion = document.getElementById('F4000_P4651_PLUG_SOURCE_fieldset');
editorRegion.innerHTML = editorRegion.innerHTML.replace("textarea","div");
// run ACE
highlight();
// Modify the apply Button in Apex to first revert ACE-Editor to normal, then do the usual apply.
var applyChanges = document.getElementById('B3456326662');
applyChanges.setAttribute("onclick","modifiedApply()");
function modifiedApply(){
close();
setTimeout(normalApply, 500);
}
function normalApply(){
javascript:apex.submit('Apply_Changes');
}
// Revert ACE-Changes, but keep changed text/code.
function close(){
var value = editor.getValue();
editor.destroy();
var oldDiv = editor.container;
var newDiv = oldDiv.cloneNode(false);
newDiv.textContent = value;
oldDiv.parentNode.replaceChild(newDiv, oldDiv);
newDiv.outerHTML = newDiv.outerHTML.replace("div","textarea");
var old_new_old = document.getElementById('F4000_P4651_PLUG_SOURCE');
old_new_old.textContent = old_new_old.textContent.substring(0, old_new_old.textContent.length - 6);
}
var editor;
function highlight() {
editor = ace.edit("F4000_P4651_PLUG_SOURCE");
editor.setTheme("ace/theme/monokai");
editor.getSession().setUseWorker(false);
editor.getSession().setMode("ace/mode/javascript");
document.getElementsByClassName('ace_print-margin')[0].setAttribute("style","left:1000px");
}
function loadScript(url, callback){
var script = document.createElement("script")
script.type = "text/javascript";
if (script.readyState){ //IE
script.onreadystatechange = function(){
if (script.readyState == "loaded" ||
script.readyState == "complete"){
script.onreadystatechange = null;
callback();
}
};
} else { //Others
script.onload = function(){
callback();
};
}
script.src = url;
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(script);
}