K2's frontend editor is grabbing the background off my website and displaying it in the frontend editor. This makes it hard to view the options in the K2 frontend editor.

Does anyone know how I can change this ?

thanks in advance !

Sounds like z-index. Check the z-index setting for the background that is showing up and the z-index of the K2 editor portion that is being covered by the background. K2 should have a higher z-index than your background. Higher numbers show on your screen in front of lower numbers.

Thanks for the lead Terry, sounds like a great possibility !

but where do I find the z-index ?

Z-index is a css setting. The best way to get at this is to use Firefox with the Firebug addon. Once you've got that you can inspect the web page and look at the css and actually change it on the fly. The brute force way would be to search your template's css files for "z-index." You could also use IE and then "view source" and search for z-index. I just checked and the z-index of the K2 editor is: 65555. That's obviously pretty high but there's no telling what some of these template guys do.

 

Hi Terry, We had success in a different thread tonight, so I figured I'd go back through and try to solve this.

I got firefox and firebug and found the z-index for the underneath background, but nothing I did to the z-index changed anything. Although I did find where to change the color of the background, but I couldn't find the z-index for the K2 frontend editor overlay window....what would I change this to once I find it ?

can I give you a login so you can launch the K2 editor ?

I sent you a friend request.  PM me with the login info.

Is it JCE ?

In JCE settings you have a option for "brighteness". It force background to show as white, and text color black.