How to align checkboxes and their labels consistently cross-browsers

Question

This is one of the minor CSS problems that plagues me constantly. How do folks around Stack Overflow vertically align checkboxes and

Answer 1

Hardcode the checkbox's height and width, remove its padding, and make its height plus vertical margins equal to the label's line-height. If the label text is inline, float the checkbox. Firefox, Chrome, and IE7+ all render the following example identically: http://www.kornea.com/css-checkbox-align