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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.
I have no problem (Gasp! Heresy!) with using tables to line up form elements and their labels. If that makes me a Luddite, then so be it. I feel it can be argued that arrays of label/input pairs are sufficiently tabular to be rendered with tables.