The site we are using has a black background, so I created a simple style sheet to emulate the master style sheet..

@charset "UTF-8";
/* CSS Document */

body {
	color: #099;
	background-color: #000;	
}

textarea {
	color:#099;
}

However, by default, I get black text on black. I tried using !important, but that did not work as well.

Suggestions?

One interesting point...

I opted to change the background color to a charcoal grey (#555) and it works fine for editing the text... BUT when viewing HTML, it reverts to Black on Black.

Hello,

Can you please explain a little more clear this?

There are options for default text and background color on the Advanced HTML Editor 3 dialog. Please use those to specify colors for the editor.

Greetings,
George

that doesn't work.. the editor defaults in my case to the background image which is black and makes the editor useless??

how can this be considered answered when the problem still exist??
fbk and old editor doesn't seem to have this issue.

Hello Phil.

Can you provide us with link to the page where the editor is placed ? If you don't want to post your page public you can send the details to my e-mail also:

Regards:Vulcho.

I can't right now because I replaced it with irite. I do have a test page that I can try and modify for you.. I will send the link