<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<title>Balancing Overflow</title>

<style type="text/css">
  .colset {
    display: table;
    border-collapse: separate;
    border-spacing: 0;
    border: solid silver;
    font: 16px/1 sans-serif;
  }
  p { width: 3em; display: table-cell;}
</style>

<div class="colset">
<p>one two</p>
<p>three four</p>
<p>five six</p>
</div>