APEX

I am new to Application Express so please be gentle....

I have an HTML region that contains several items/fields that I am using to gather user input. So my Page or HTML region looks something like the example below.....

Name:__________ Birthdate:_________
Address: _____________________ City:__________ State: _______

So with the example above in mind how can I get the fields "City" and "Birthdate" to line up nicely on the page so that they would appear something like.....

Name:__________ Birthdate:_________
Address: _____________________ City:__________ State: _______

I have tried changing all kinds of things such as Begin on New Line, ...Field, Colspan, Rowspan. In playing with these various settings I am unable to make any headway with aligning the fields on my page so that they display nicely....but I AM making progress at confusing myself as to how AppEx actually stores the labels and fields. I never seem to be able to control the spacing between the fields being displayed.

So with all of that said....is there a way to make page items line up in an HTML region? There seems to be no issue getting the first column of each new row to line up (Begin on New Line = Yes) but when in comes to lining up the 2nd and 3rd fields on a row I am at a lose. Looks like I could also use a lesson in how labels and fields are stored within underlying AppEx HTML tables.

Many thanks in advance for any and all responses.