use display:inline-block to render an inline element as a block nested in a line.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> strong { display: inline-block; width: 250px; } </style> </head> <body> <strong>strong <br /><code>display:inline-block</code></strong> <br /><br /> </body> </html>