dual alignment of table cell content

[Dave Mausner]

consider a one-row, two-column table. the right column is very long with
text content. the left column is used for navigation links.

i aligned the links with the top of the column so that they are visible when
the page loads. i would like to repeat the links aligned at the bottom of
the same column as a convenience for readers who paged down to the end of
the text.

here's a picture--can it be done? i am using html4+css1.

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- links - text
- - text
- - text
- links - text
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placing the bottom links in a second row forces their top to align below the
last line of text, which is all one row. i would actually like to align the
bottom of those links with the bottom of the text as shown above.

i created the links as an embedded, one-row-one-column table with spacing
set to make them look like colorful buttons. this is not critical.

t.i.a.

[Brian]

Dave Mausner wrote:

consider a one-row, two-column table. the right column is very long with
text content. the left column is used for navigation links.

Sounds like you're using the table for layout.

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[Stan Brown]

In article <5k********************@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com > in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Dave Mausner
<da**********@daugherty.com> wrote:

i aligned the links with the top of the column so that they are visible when
the page loads. i would like to repeat the links aligned at the bottom of
the same column as a convenience for readers who paged down to the end of
the text.

Aside from the issue of using tables for layout (usually a bad
idea), what about people who can see your whole page on one screen?
Two copies of links is going to look pretty lame. And two copies of
links increases page load time for _everyone_.

I think you can safely assume that anyone who uses a Web browser
knows how to scroll. My earnest advice is, don't waste time or
bandwidth to save users from hitting Ctrl-Home or using a mouse to
scroll up. Spend that effort instead on making sure that your design
works irrespective of screen size and window size.

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