How to shade a passage in a Wordpress post?

[monton]

How do you shade a passgae such as a paragraph in wordpress. I see this sometimes in review sites to indicate they have taken a passage directly from the product page. There is usally a line going by the left side with content background in a grey and slightly in (so not inline with rest of the content) rathen than white background as with rest of the content.

[Mittineague]

The best way to know for certain would be for you to look at a page's view-source, determine what tags/ids/classes the text of interest is using, and then look at the corresponding CSS rules.

But I'm guessing it's the <blockquote> tag. Try it in a test post (preview not publish) and see if it's anything close to what you're looking for.