<NOBR> replacement in CSS

[fileserverdirect]

Hello,
I am working on a website that works on peoples websites. Now to impress them, I like to show off my W3C HTML 4.01 STRICT valid icon, but I came to a stump. In a table, there are 2 cells, One cell is 2/3's of the table (well It actually isn't, but to even it out, the browser sticks it out half way) and the other cell conatins "Hello, Please Login" or when the person is logged in, "Hello, a-username-here". However, this text is being pushed like this:

Hello,
Please
Log
in

So I used a <NOBR> tag to fix it, it worked, well almost, <NOBR> is not valid Strict. So here is my question (yes this was all leading up to it) Is there a way in css to replace the <NOBR> tag, or any other way to solve this problem (that is valid strict, yes I've tried <td width=500> , not valid).

[Twey]

white-space: nowrap;