New Post: Setting text area background color of the WatchersNET CKEditor™ Provider 2.0.10

OK, just to wrap this long thread I managed to get it working but only after having done many changes to the configuration.

1. Host --> HTML Editor Manager --> Editor area CSS - set my css file for the whole site
2. Only when I removed the Editor area CSS reference to my css file on my dev website page in the HTML Editor Manager for particular module did the settings change and the background was set to grey.
   

It looks as the CK HTML Editor Manager's settings are not synced throughout the same portal.
It would be logical if the changes applied to a HTML module Editor's settings were visible without having to resort to changing the pan-portal settings.

Treat the threat as closed though.