What is the best way to style a list of checkboxes

Question

What I\'d like to achieve is a layout like this

some label  [ ] checkbox 1
            [ ] checkbox 2
            [ ] checkbox 3
            [ ] checkbox 4

Answer 1

I would use this markup:

  some label
  

    
 checkbox 1
    
 checkbox 2
    
 checkbox 3
    
 checkbox 4
  

and these styles:

#checkboxes label {
  float: left;
}
#checkboxes ul {
  margin: 0;
  list-style: none;
  float: left;
}

Tables aren't evil, but they're used for the wrong reasons more often than not. They make for bigger html-files (bad for performance and bandwidth), usually with a more cluttered html-structure (bad for maintainability). As for tabular data however, they are excellent.