Background turns black in edit mode

[TimeBandit]

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.

[Tom Benjamin]

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.