How to align all fields as label width grows

Question

I have a form where the labels are on the left and the fields on the right. This layout works great when the labels have small amounts of text. I can easily set a min-widt

Answer 1

What about this solution?

    

        Name
        Username text text text 
    
    

        
        

        
    

css:

label
{
  display: block;
}
.column{
    float:left;
}

fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/steweb/xzHe6/