Making a custom para style work in HTML

Asciidoctor 1.5.2 [http://asciidoctor.org]
Runtime Environment (ruby 2.0.0p576 (2014-09-19) [x86_64-cygwin]) (lc:UTF-8 fs:Windows-1252 in:- ex:UTF-8)

I've scanned a lot of documentation on this question, but what the asciidoctor processor does doesn't seem to quite match what I read....

What I want is to have a paragraph style 'rule', that will be indented and blue (or think up any typical visual/font mods).

So in the Asciidoc source I have:

[.rule]
*VTVSID* value-set id defined sss ddd fff.

I had thought it should just be [rule] but that doesn't work.

What I expected to get was 'class=rule' in the generated <p> tag. What I get is this:

<div class="paragraph rule"><p>....</p></div>

I created a custom css and added the following to it:

div.paragraph.rule {text-indent:1.25em;color:blue;font-family:"Open Sans"}

This does do something in the HTML output, but it's not quite right.

Questions:
* why is the generated class name "paragraph rule" and not just "rule"?
* I would normally expect to just define p.rule {} in the CSS - I picked up the div.paragraph.rule thing from the asciidoctor documentation.
* why is the class put on an enclosing <div>, not just on the <p>?
* I also want to generate PDF - is the [.rule] directive in the adoc source correct for that as well?

Sorry if this is too basic. I don't normally hack CSS source and am very new to Asciidoctor.
 

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