Joomla Content item edit question

I am just getting started with Joomla and all was going well until I ran into this problem.

When I click Content Items Manager, then click the title of the homepage (in order to edit it) the background of where I actually type the text is black. The only way I can see what I typed is to left click and drag on the window and highlight the text.

The text shows up fine on the actual site (on a white background).

Any ideas on how I can actually see what I am typing in the content items manager while I am typing it? To get rid of the black background?

 

Its just the template Background pal.
Either you can edit th template CSS a bit, or you can change the template while you edit, or you can use softwares like BlogX.

 

Thanks for the help, though I still have not got this fixed. Can you tell me which CSS I need to edit? I went to the template manager: Administrator and clicked edit CSS, but I do not know which CSS code to change.

 

What editor (wysiwyg) ar you using ?

If you are using JCE or FCK you can change the template settings in their config.
Go To-Mambots-Site Mambots
Click on the editor you are using
On the right you should find the template css Class parameter
Change the setting to : not use the templates.css.css

Hope this helps !

 

The default one that came with the joomla instal (TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor)

 

in tinyMce bot you can change the parameters.
See above post.

 

do yourself a favour, get bloggx.

 

Thanks for the help, unfortunately I tried this and it didn't work, but at least now I know where to look

I tried turning off the wisywig and the background is no longer black, but with the wisywig on it is still a black background. At least now I can see what I am typing with the wisywig off.

 

i think there is a missing file on your server. reinstalling the joomla may solve your problem

 

If anyone is interested I finally fixed this issue after messing with it most of the day.

I found this thread on another forum and followed the instructions given in post #20.

The reason I was having the problem is that I installed a free template, and that templates CSS has a dark background color. The TinyMCE wysiwyg editor calls upon the templates css for its background color, thus creating the problem.

I had to create a tinymce_css.css file. (copy and paste of the template_css.css)

I then changed the background color in the tinymce_css.css to white.

Uploaded that into the free templates css folder,

went to "mambots/editors/tinymce.php" and found the php code to change it from reading the template_css.css to reading the tinymce_css.css.

I'm just posting this in case anyone else ever runs into this same issue they may find it helpful.

If you check out post 20 in the thread indicated above he has a great walkthrough of the process.