blockquote {
font-family: verdana, georgia, arial, serif;
color: #2F4F4F;
font-size:small;
font-style:italic;
background: #F5F5F5;
padding: 20px;
border: 1px solid;
}

This is the CSS for it – note, it’s not .blockquote but just “blockquote” in the style sheet, because I’m using an HTML tag as the name of the style element.