Use UL and LI to layout form controls
<!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" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <title>Aligning labels</title> <style type="text/css"> ul { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; } li { margin: .2em 0; } #info label { float: left; width: 200px; margin-right: 15px; text-align: right; } </style> </head> <body> <form id="info" method="post" action="/formhandler.cgi"> <ul> <li><label>Your name</label> <input type="text" /></li> <li><label>Your E-mail address</label> <input type="text" /></li> <li><label>Your telephone number</label> <input type="text" /></li> </ul> </form> </body> </html>