Question

What is the preferred methon to create something like

Apples   Apples can be
         green or red or
         more text more text

Bananas  Most of the time
         bananas are yellow
         (or green, if they're
         not ripe)

Item X   Each item should be aligned
         with the previous item, and
         each text (such as this 
         sentence) should be alligned
         with the previous text.

I have tried

.desc {
  margin-left: 140px;
  text-indent: -100px;
}

.item {
  width:100px;
}

...

<div class='desc'>
  <span class='item'>Apples</span> Apples can be green ....
</div>

But it didn’t really give the result I expected (at least in Firefox).

Can someone help me here?

Thanks

René

Answer 1

It depends on data you want to use, but semantically speaking it seems like term and it’s description, so dl hops in mind ^^

dt { display: block; float: left; width: 140px; }

<dl>
  <dt>Apples</dt>
  <dd>Description to it more lines of text to show it.</dd>
  <dt>Bananas</dt>
  <dd>Description to it more lines of text to show it.</dd>
  <dt>Lemon</dt>
  <dd>Description to it more lines of text to show it.</dd>
</dl>