I'm currently working on refactoring one of our Form Controller so that we can use it for a public facing site. Currently it's generating a table layout for the forms, but I am trying to get it done using CSS forms.

I am trying to reproduce something that would look like this <http://www.stylephreak.com/uploads/source/cssforms/cssform.php>

Issue I am having is that every CSS form examples I find seems to assume a fixed width for the left column label. I have no control over what goes in the label in my case, it's coming from a user editable translation bank. With a table it's super easy I would simply use whitespace:nowrap; and the longest label would decide on the td's width and everyone is happy. 

Is it possible to do something similar with CSS? I've tried using min-width and forcing it not to wrap. This worked but only pushes the current control right and screwed up the alignment, not to mention that min-width isn't supported in IE 6.

Is it really that bad to use a table for form layouts? It's tabular data and make sense when linearized after all no?