Vertical Align text in a Label

Question

I have been asked to vertically align the text in the labels for the fields in a form but I don\'t understand why they are not moving. I have tried putting in-line styles using

Answer 1

This is what I usually do to "vertical align" text inside labels:

label {
   display: block;
   float: left;
   padding-top: 2px; /*This needs to be modified to fit */
}

It won't scale very nicely, but it works.