Hi,

I have a website with a dark background color and white text.

The editor read the template.css correctly except the body background, so it showed white text on white background which made it imposible for me to create articles correctly.

I tryed using a custom css, modify the templates/system/css/system.css to include the background color in the text are, etc., but nothing worked.

Then i started searching for white and ffffff inside the jckeditor folder and then i got lucky.

This is how it's done:

1. Open the file helper.php located in plugins/editors/jckeditor/includes/ckeditor/htmlwriter/javascript

2. Look for the line with the code: $bgcolor = $params->get( 'bgcolor','#ffffff');

3. Replace #ffffff with your background color.

Hi puertoagp,

I've tried your little trick but with no success unfortunately... something weird happens.

Like you said, I've located the helper.php file in plugins/editors/jckeditor/includes/ckeditor/htmlwriter/javascript and changed the line:
$bgcolor = $params->get( 'bgcolor','#ffffff');
to
$bgcolor = $params->get( 'bgcolor','#3F3631');

and what happens is that the JCK Editor doesn't load no more... even if I change it back to #ffffff I get a blank page. To fix it, I must uninstall completely and reinstall JCK.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks for your help... I really need to change background color and it's "supposed" to be implemented in the next version but it's been like 2½ months since I posted the request and still no updates. My clients are not really happy about the situation at the moment because they have a dark website template with light Fonts color.

Please help!!!

Please see post where patch is attached:

www.joomlackeditor.com/forum/8-how-to-qu...white-background#819

Hi Denis L.

I don't know if the link and instructions provided by awills worked for you.

I'm using version 3.1.1 with Joomla 1.5.20 and it works great, i'd suggest you test it on a clean install on a local computer and work your way from there!