Is there any difference in using a font Arial Black or Arial with the <Strong> tag?

Question

My text that is supposed to be Arial Black is not working on Firefox. It's just displayed as a regular text. So I used Arial font with the Strong tag. I can't make a difference between the way they look. Is there anything I should worry about?

Thank you

EDIT

In this particular case I can't use CSS to do it so that's how i did it:

<font face="Arial Black, Arial, sans-serif"> <strong>Want an undergraduate course with more opportunity for hands-on practice? </strong></font>

Thanks for all the answers and explanations, I believe the strong tag is not wrong here as this is the most important part in the whole message. The visual difference wasn't noticed by anybody, that's confirmation enough for me.

I posted in jsfiddle and it surprised me the strong tag didn't add the bold effect i was expecting! The b did. You can clearly see the difference there! Thanks for that suggestion!

Answer 1

With regard to the question title (as the question text seems to ask differently):

The <strong> tag carries a semantic meaning. Citing MDN on this

The HTML Strong Element () gives text strong importance, and is typically displayed in bold.

So in the first place you should use this tag so mark up content, that you want to emphasize and not to get text marked bold.

Most browsers, however, will implement that emphasizing as just bold printed text.

If you just want to have bold text, use the respective CSS for it!

font-weight: bold;

Answer 2

<strong> holds a certain semantic meaning (along the lines of "more important"), and as such should be avoided purely to style something. If you want to "bold" the text, just add font-weight: 700.

Or you know, fix the reason Arial Black isn't working :P It may be that you didn't add speech marks around Arial Black.

font-family: Arial;

is completely acceptable, but

font-family: Arial Black;

is not. Make sure you have

font-family: "Arial Black";