Spacing problems

[Aaron Gray]

I aqm trying to do some spacing on a form between two text input fields
within a <td>. It works on IE but not FF or Opera :-

var spacer = document.createElement("span");
spacer.style.width = "3pt";
td.appendChild(spacer);

I have tried :

spacer.setAttribute( "style", "width:3pt");

as well but that does not work either.

Whats the best way of doing spacing in DOM without using tables.

Aaron