Page layout breaks when Editing page

[bcomplexcreative]

I've created a site for a client who wants to use Contribute to edit it. The
site wasn't built with Dreamweaver (hand-coded). Pages look fine when they're
loaded in the Contribute window, but when he goes to Edit the page, the layout
breaks. it's a table-less CSS-based layout with some includes, but it looks
fine when initially loaded. After editing & publishing, the page generally
looks fine again. This would only be a minor annoyance, but sometimes there
are blocks of text that, when Editing, suddenly seem to have a near-zero line
spacing....so he can't see what he's trying to edit. Is there a setting I'm
missing somewhere?
thanks,
benjy

[ThinkInk]

Check out this thread, maybe you can handcode editable regions.

[url]http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=55&catid=290&threadid=1281 929&highlight_key=y&keyword1=template[/url]

[bcomplexcreative]

Thanks...this is helpful, but doesn't exactly answer the question. The issue
isn't that my client does things to mess up the layout -- it's that whenever he
switches from regular view to Edit Page view, the CSS gets all screwy, and
parts of text become un-selectable and therefore uneditable. Ever seen this
before?

[ThinkInk]

Yes, I've seen it before. It's not allways obvious how Contribute (in different
versions) will handle certain CSS. Often you have to fall back to trial and
error.
But using Editable regions and Templates eases the problem somewhat since some
clients don't mind that their website doesn't look all the same in edit mode,
as long as they can edit the content in the editable regions properly.