You could always open your article, switch to the code view by toggling the editor and then entering something like this
<div style="width:90%;background-color:#cccccc;padding:20px;margin:auto;">
ALL OF YOUR ARTICLE CONTENT
</div>
Whether this would look any good with the read more option used I don’t know. You might be able to modify this principle to suit your needs though?
<em>@lisa_katz 192688 wrote:</em><blockquote>On my homepage http://www.yhd.org.il/, I changed the areas under the slideshow from modules to articles so my client could more easily update the homepage.
Is there some way I can add some shape to the four articles, perhaps an outline around the text or a different color background? I only see how to use the suffix badge background with modules, but not with articles.
TIA!
Lisa</blockquote>