Joomla WYSIWYG Background Color Issue

Unreadable text editor in Dimensions Template

I am working on a new content project which will be powered by Joomla. Joomla is a popular open source content management system written in PHP. There are tons of extenstions and templates out there, I recomend RocketTemplates for great templates. I ran into an issue with one of their latest templates "Dimensions". Joomla's WYSIWYG editor uses the site's template's CSS to apply style. With the Dimensions template, the background gets set to black, and your text is black, therefore you can't see anything you are typing. To fix this, in the administration panel, go to

Mambots > Site Mambots

then click on TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor in the listing. Under Parameters on the right-hand side, scroll down to Template CSS classes and select the No radio button. That's it!

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Re: Joomla WYSIWYG Background Color Issue

Hey dude! You made my day with this! Thank you so much!!

Re: Joomla WYSIWYG Background Color Issue

same!! so glad I found you tonigh:) thanks!

Re: Joomla WYSIWYG Background Color Issue

Hi,

I've been using Joomla and JCE for about 3 years now and I've run into this problem several times. While the above solution takes you half way there, you might want to go all the way and actually enter a real css file after you say no to template css classes. The trick is to break up your template css file in two - layout.css and custom.css (you can have any names) and import them into your default template file. Then in the field after where you said NO above, enter custom.css. This way, you ensure that your text editor sees classes, but doesn't see those that are in layout.css.

Hope this helped,
-V

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