Background turns black in edit mode

Question

I recently coded a few templates for use in Contribute -
specifically 2 different templates for 2 different designs. The
HTML looks as it it needs to in the supported browsers (IE,
Mozilla, Safari) and in DreamWevaer's WYSIWYG mode. It also looks
fine in Contribute's WYSIWYG mode until a user hits "edit". Once
they hit edit the white (or any other coloured) background of the
body text (content area) turns black in both templates. This makes
the layout have black text on a black background which makes
editing text a real challenge, to be polite.
I normally code tableless CSS sites, and make pretty
extensive use of CSS, however on these 2 designs I did use more
tables knowing it would end up in Contribute. I understand
Contribute has some struggles with CSS layout but am curious what
would cause colours to change in edit mode. Perhaps there is some
preference I can turn off to stop this behaviour, etc?
I looked on the internet a bit and also in these forums and
haven't found a way to address this aside from crippling the design
further. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Can you attach a sample page and CSS?
The only CSS issue I've run into where Contribute's edit mode
behaves differently from browsers or Dreamweaver involved all
objects in the editable region of a template disappearing when the
user used the Enter key to create a new paragraph. If I remember
correctly I finally isolated it to a "<br />" tag that had
been assigned an id linked to a CSS declaration of "clear=all".
Otherwise I've found that well-coded CSS renders fine in
Contribute.