How to force a checkbox and text on the same line?

How can I force a checkbox and following text to appear on the same line? In the following HTML, I'd only want the line to break between label and input, not between input and label.

<p><fieldset>
    <input type="checkbox" id="a">
    <label for="a">a</label>
    <input type="checkbox" id="b">
    <!-- depending on width, a linebreak can occur here. -->
    <label for="b">b</label>
    <input type="checkbox" id="c">
    <label for="c">c</label>
</fieldset></p>

To clarify: if the fieldset/p is not wide enough for all elements, instead of:

[] a [] b []
c [] d [] e

I want:

[] a [] b
[] c [] d
[] e

It wont break if you wrap each item in a div. Check out my fiddle with the link below. I made the width of the fieldset 125px and made each item 50px wide. You'll see the label and checkbox remain side by side on a new line and don't break.

<fieldset>
<div class="item">
    <input type="checkbox" id="a">
    <label for="a">a</label>
</div>
<div class="item">
   <input type="checkbox" id="b">
<!-- depending on width, a linebreak can occur here. -->
    <label for="b">bgf bh fhg fdg hg dg gfh dfgh</label>
</div>
<div class="item">
    <input type="checkbox" id="c">
    <label for="c">c</label>
</div>
</fieldset>

http://jsfiddle.net/t5dwp7pg/1/

Try this CSS:

label {
  display: inline-block;
}

Try this. The following considers checkbox and label as a unique element:

<style>
  .item {white-space: nowrap;display:inline  }
</style>
<fieldset>
<div class="item">
    <input type="checkbox" id="a">
    <label for="a">aaaaaaaaaaaa aaaa a a a a a a aaaaaaaaaaaaa</label>
</div>
<div class="item">
   <input type="checkbox" id="b">
<!-- depending on width, a linebreak NEVER occurs here. -->
    <label for="b">bbbbbbbbbbbb bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb  b b b b  bb</label>
</div>
<div class="item">
    <input type="checkbox" id="c">
    <label for="c">ccccc c c c c ccccccccccccccc  cccc</label>
</div>
</fieldset>

Another way to do this solely with css:

input[type='checkbox'] {
  float: left;
  width: 20px;
}
input[type='checkbox'] + label {
  display: block;
  width: 30px;
}

Note that this forces each checkbox and its label onto a separate line, rather than only doing so only when there's overflow.

You can wrap the label around the input:

 **<label for="a"><input type="checkbox" id="a">a</label>**

This worked for me.

http://jsbin.com/etozop/2/edit

put a div wrapper with WIDTH :

  <p><fieldset style="width:60px;">
   <div style="border:solid 1px red;width:80px;">
    <input type="checkbox" id="a">
    <label for="a">a</label>
    <input type="checkbox" id="b">
   
    <label for="b">b</label>
   </div>
    
    <input type="checkbox" id="c">
    <label for="c">c</label>
</fieldset></p>

a name could be " john winston ono lennon" which is very long... so what do you want to do? (youll never know the length)... you could make a function that wraps after x chars like : "john winston o...."