Prevent wrapping of text below radio buttons

Question

The best way I could describe what I want is with this picture:

How do I make it so the text aligns with the top text, and not the radio button?

Relevant CSS is as follows:

.basic-grey {
    width: 600px;
    margin-right: auto;
    margin-left: auto;
    background: #FFF;
    word-wrap: break-word; 
    padding: 20px 30px 20px 30px;
    font: 12px "Myriad Pro", sans-serif;
    color: #888;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #FFF;
    border:1px solid #DADADA;
}

}
.basic-grey h1>span {
    display: block;
    font-size: 11px;
}
.basic-grey label {
    display: block;
    margin: 0px 0px 5px;
}
.basic-grey label>span {
    float: left;
    width: 80px;
    text-align: right;
    padding-right: 10px;
    margin-top: 10px;
    color: #888;
}
.basic-grey select {
    background: #FFF url('down-arrow.png') no-repeat right;
    background: #FFF url('down-arrow.png') no-repeat right);
    appearance:none;
    -webkit-appearance:none;
    -moz-appearance: none;
    text-indent: 0.01px;
    text-overflow: '';
    width: 72%;
    height: 30px;
}
.basic-grey textarea{
    height:100px;
}
.basic-grey p {
    display: inline ;
}
;}

Markup:

<form name="frm1" action="index4.php" method="POST" class="basic-grey">
    <h3>2.  I have taught the course, several times face to face, that I wish to transform into a blended format.  </h3>
    <input type="radio" name="q2" value="1" /> <p>This statement accurately reflects my experience.</p><br>
    <input type="radio" name="q2" value="2" /> <p>This statement partially reflects my experience (I have taught the course only a few times or once before).</p><br>
    <input type="radio" name="q2" value="3" /> <p>This statement does not reflect my experience (this a new course that I will teach for the first time in a blended format).</p><br>
    <br>
    <input type="submit" name="button" class="button" value="Submit" /> 
</form>

When I try to float the radio button, all the text becomes out of whack.

Answer 1

It's pretty simple, just turn your label element to display: block; and use margin-left for the label and float your radio button to the left

Demo

Demo 2 (Nothing fancy, just used multiple radio for the demonstration)

input[type=radio] {
    float: left;
}

label {
    margin-left: 30px;
    display: block;
}

Just note that say if you are storing the radio with the labels in an li element, something like

<ul class="radiolist">
    <li>
        <input type="radio"><label>Your text goes here</label>
    </li>
</ul>

So make sure you self clear them by using something like

.radiolist li:after {
    content: "";
    clear: both;
    display: table;
}

That will ensure that you are self clearing all the li elements, and about the :after psuedo, it is well supported in IE8 so nothing to worry about.

Answer 2

Flexbox solution:

Now that flexbox is widely supported, a simple display: flex; will work like magic.

Just wrap both the input and text with a <label> (so that clicking the text also toggles the input without the need for a for=""), and voila!

.flex-label {
  display: flex;
}
input[type=radio] {
  /* one way to help with spacing */
  margin-right: 12px;
}

<label class="flex-label">
  <input type="radio">
  <span>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. </span>
</label>

If you want to keep the <label> separate, just wrap both in an element for applying the flex fix: https://jsfiddle.net/pn4qyam5/

Answer 3

This worked for me

input[type=radio] {
  float: left;
  display: block;
  margin-top: 4px;
}

label {
  margin-left: 15px;
  display: block;
}

Answer 4

.basic-grey {
    word-wrap: break-word;
    font: 12px "Myriad Pro",sans-serif;
    color: #888;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #FFF;
}
.basic-grey p {
    padding-left:20px;
}
.basic-grey input[type=radio] {
    margin-left:-15px;
}

Assuming that your markup is:

<p><input type="radio"/>This statements actually...</p>

Answer 5

I love this:

HTML:

<input type="radio" name="vacation" value="Ski Trips"><label>very long label ...</label>

CSS:

input[type="radio"] { 
    position: absolute;
}
input[type="radio"] ~ label { 
    padding-left:1.4em;
    display:inline-block;
}