This bulletin board works differently from most of them. I wish to be able to cut and paste information from some other source into a thread on this BB and denote the quote (as opposed to my own stuff) in color. I have found it impossible to do so because this BB automatically add a <p> and </p> pair around each paragraph defined by a doubled [newline] character.

I have discovered that the <SPAN style="background-color: lightblue; color: red"> </SPAN> pair will permit one to highlight all text between them regardless of the embedded <p> and </p> pairs. But font color reverts to the default style specified in the style sheet underlying the BB as soon as a double [newline] is encountered. This effect is demonstrated in the current post.

Can anyone suggest a method of pasting a quote so that the entire quote is in a different font color without introducing HTML commands in the middle of the quote?

Any suggestions?