<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Column-span:all between text nodes</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>There should be two lines of text below (not horizontally aligned):</p>
        <div style="float:left; width:5em; height:1px;"></div>line1<br>
        line2
    </body>
</html>