CSS to make bold text appear normal

Can someone help me w/ internal css for making text that's bold look normal.

For example:
In this sentence, this text is bold.

I'd like "this text" to be bold/have <b> tags around it however it shouldn't look bold.

Other bold text on the same page should look bold.

 

Just create a class on your style sheet , and then add that style to your text you want to change..

Hope this helps

 

Thanks but how do I make the bold text look normal?

 

p{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000000;
}
.nobold{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000000;
font-weight: normal;
}
strong{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000000;
}

Create a div class for the text you want to be like the rest of your text ie .nobold and add the font-weight: normal; to the css. Either stick it in a css file or place it inline at the sauce of the bold text (easy way to be honest).

With a class tag <strong class="nobold">The bit you don't want to be bold</strong>

Inline would look like this <strong style="font-weight:normal;">The bit you don't want to be bold</strong>

 

will google know youre trying to fool them?

 

Thanks!

I hope not

 

I would not call this "fooling google".
By using <strong> tags you clearly want to stress over some keywords on the page.
If your layout is negatively affected as a result, I see no harm in making <strong> text look like normal one.. It is different to making font unreadably small to fill your page with keywords, it's only a font weight adjustment..

 

Google has requested CSS files from servers, I think they'd know, at least soon they should be able to.