Why is giving a fixed width to a label an accepted behavior?

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Published on 2010-04-02T16:58:07Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 20:23 UTC
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There are a lot of questions about formatting forms so that labels align, and almost all the answers which suggest a pure CSS solution (as opposed to using a table) provide a fixed width to the label element.

But isn't this mixing content and presentation? In order to choose the right width you basically have to see how big your longest label is and try a pixel width value until "it fits". This means that if you change your labels you also have to change your CSS.

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