Different background for blockquote and paragraph in a blockquote
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> blockquote { float: left; width: 175px; margin: 0 0.7em 0 0; padding: 10px 0 0 27px; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: italic; color: black; } blockquote p { margin: 0; padding: 0 22px 10px 0; width:150px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.3em; } </style> </head> <body> <p>One</p> <blockquote> <p>Two</p> </blockquote> <p>three</p> <p>four</p> <p>file</p> </body> </html>