Having problems forcing width of a div

[stepheng]

I'm having trouble forcing divs to be a certain width, so that the divs on the right side of them will be aligned properly with each other.

Here is the HTML:

 
<div id="active_project">
 <div class="entry underline">
 <a href="projects/example/"><h3>EXAMPLE PROJECT</h3></a>
 <div class="project_info">
  <div class="status">status</div><div class="info_content">Doing Something</div>
 </div>
 <div class="project_info">
  <div class="updated">updated</div><div class="info_content">March 31, 2010</div>
 </div>
 </div>
</div>

And here is the CSS that I currently use:

#active_project {
 margin-left: 2%;
 width: 97%;
}

#active_project h3 {
 margin: 0px;
 padding: 0px;
}
#active_project a {
 margin: 0px;
 padding: 0px;
 text-decoration: none;
}
.project_info {
 margin-left: 20px;
 padding-left: 5px;
 padding-top: 0px;
 margin-top: 0px;
 line-height: 1.65;
 font-size: 12px;
}

.info_content {
 display:inline;
 margin-left: 5px;
}
.updated {
 border-left: 3px solid #ff0000;
 display: inline;
 padding-left: 5px;
 font-size:10px;
}
.status {
 border-left: 3px solid #0000ff;
 display: inline;
 padding-left: 5px;
 font-size:10px;
 margin-right: 12px;
}

I want to have the div info_content to align with each other. (appear like tabular data) Now, it appears to work properly because I've set the margin-right of status to 12px. However, when I want to display more/different project_info information (aside from updated or status), I'm going to have to modify the margin-right of all the possibilities aside from the lengthiest. I've tried setting the widths of both status and updated, but it doesn't work.

I hope the above made sense.

Any insight?

[stepheng]

Quick bump, as I still haven't been able to figure this one out. Any insight would be hugely appreciated.

[tangor]

This looks like tabular data. I would suggest using a table for this, particularly if there will be additional rows of information. Setting widths in tables, and aligning text in each cell, is much easier for datasets.