The <blockquote></blockquote> pair is defined in the stylesheet to produce this orangish background and the indentations, and is intended for quoted material.

blockquote is a "container" tag, in that it's intended to enclose other tags. HTML uses hierarchical inheritance of styles, such that 1) an inner tag inherits the formatting of enclosing tags; 2) style overrides in the enclosed tags affect the local content of the tag and is further inherited downward. So I'm pretty sure that you can put a style attribute in blockquote to change the styling of everything it encloses. Let's test that:

The starting blockquote tag looks like this (this is our first test of an inserted <p> pair):

<blockquote style="background-color: lightblue; color: red">

Let's have a couple more paragraphs here...yadda yadda mumble type random stuff then do a copy-and-paste to pad it out. Yadda yadda mumble type random stuff then do a copy-and-paste to pad it out. Yadda yadda mumble type random stuff then do a copy-and-paste to pad it out.

Yadda yadda mumble type random stuff then do a copy-and-paste to pad it out. Yadda yadda mumble type random stuff then do a copy-and-paste to pad it out. Yadda yadda mumble type random stuff then do a copy-and-paste to pad it out. Yadda yadda mumble type random stuff then do a copy-and-paste to pad it out.

Now to post to see if it worked...