Fill available spaces between labels with dots or hyphens

Try this: http://jsfiddle.net/FpRp2/4/ (updated, now works in ie7)

The solution @Marcel gave to use a dashed border instead of text hyphens solved the final issue with IE7.

(Note, I’ve only tested in Safari, Firefox and Chrome so far.)

EDIT: IE8 works. Working on a fix for IE7.

HTML

<div class="outer">
    <div class="container">
        <div class="filler"></div>
        <span class="label">some label</span>
        <span class="text">some text</span>
    </div>
    <br>
    <div class="container">
        <div class="filler"></div>
        <span class="label">some other label</span>
        <span class="text">some other text</span>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.outer {
    display: inline-block;
    *display: inline;
    zoom: 1;
    position: relative;
    clip: auto;
    overflow: hidden;
}
.container {
    position: relative;
    text-align: right;
    white-space: nowrap;
}
.filler {
    position: absolute;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    border-bottom: 1px dashed #333;
    height: 50%;
}
.label {
    background: white;
    float: left;
    margin-right: 20px;
    padding-right: 4px;
    position: relative;
}
.text {
    background: white;
    padding-left: 4px;
    position: relative;
}