Styling and indenting new 'blockquote' style

Hi,
I am new to pages, and am trying to create a new style. The style is meant to be a holder for source code, so I want it to be set off from the rest of the text. So I wanted the text to be on a gray background, indented one level from surrounding text, in a fixed width font etc.
I made these changes in the Inspector and the font panel, and then created a style, called 'code' for it.
The problem is the background fill color fills the width of the document, rather than being just behind my text (which is indented). Is there any way to define a style that has indented text with the rectangular background fill being indented the same amount?
Not unlike this site, which has code brackets like this:
this is a test

Looks like you've found something Pages cannot do at present. Go here to leave a feature request. In the meantime, looks like you'll have to make do with a text color and/or attribute.

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