Label style text-align: right
<!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> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title>unstyled form</title> <style type="text/css"> label { text-align: right; width: 100px; display: block; float: left; clear: left; margin-right: 3px; cursor: pointer } </style> </head> <body> <form id="form1" method="post" action=""> <p><label for="name">Name:</label> <input type="text" id="name" value="type here" /> </p> <p><label for="email">Email:</label> <input type="text" id="email" value="type here" /> </p> <p><label for="age">Age:</label> <input type="text" id="age" value="type here" /> </p> <p><label for="occupation">Occupation:</label> <input type="text" id="occupation" value="type here" /> </p> </form> </body> </html>