Here's a simple task you can't do in CSS2: Create a multi-line form where the la...

olavk · on Aug 2, 2009

    <style>
	label { display: table-row; }
	span { display: table-cell; }
    </style>
    <label><span>Label:</span>
       <span><input type=text></span></label>
    <label><span>Longer label:</span>
       <span><input type=checkbox></span></label>

wvenable · on Aug 3, 2009

My bad, didn't check my facts, table-cell is in CSS2! Of course, in my defense, it doesn't matter which standard it's defined in if it isn't supported by IE. It isn't even supported in IE7 and we've just recently dropped support for IE6.