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

CSS:

.threeCol .listItem {
    width:13.9em;
    padding:.2em;
    margin:.2em;
    float:left;
    border-bottom:solid #f3f3f3 1px;
}
.threeCol input {
    float:left;
    width:auto;
    margin:.2em .2em .2em 0;
    border:none;
    background:none;
}
.threeCol label {
    float:left;
    margin:.1em 0 .1em 0;
}

HTML:

    

        
        This is your checkBox
    

The above code will place your list items in threecols and just change widths to suit.