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    <p>It's not clear that it is tabular data as some others have commented, though it could be. A table would imply a semantic relationship between all the items in the respective columns (other than just "they're all names of database columns"). Anyway, here's how I've done it before:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;Form layout&lt;/title&gt; &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; fieldset {width: 60%; margin: 0 auto;} div.row {clear: both;} div.row label {float: left; width: 60%;} div.row span {float: right; width: 35%;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;form action="#" method="post"&gt; &lt;fieldset&gt; &lt;legend&gt;Section one&lt;/legend&gt; &lt;div class="row"&gt; &lt;label for="first-field"&gt;The first field&lt;/label&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;input type="text" id="first-field" size="15" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="row"&gt; &lt;label for="second-field"&gt;The second field with a longer label&lt;/label&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;input type="text" id="second-field" size="10" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="row"&gt; &lt;label for="third-field"&gt;The third field&lt;/label&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;input type="text" id="third-field" size="5" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="row"&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Go" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/fieldset&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>Edit: Seems that 'by design' I can't reply to comments on my answer, obviously this is somehow less confusing. So, in reply to 17 of 26's comment - the 60% width is entirely optional, by default the fieldset will inherit the width of the containing element. You could also, of course, make use of min-width and max-width, or any of the table layout rules, if only IE supported them, but that's not CSS failing miserably ;)</p>
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    1. COThe flaw with this is that the layout does not size itself to the data, which is one of my requirements. It's a percentage of the screensize, which can get really wide on wide screen resolutions. In my opinion, dynamic layouts is where CSS fails miserably.
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    2. COUgh. Too many divs and spans, too much markup with empty semantic meaning.
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    3. CO@Jonathan: Exactly. This sacrifices clean, meaningful markup for obscure markup in the name of not using tables for something that's obviously well suited to them.
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