Thanks, David. The flex solution is really nice - I'm so glad you worked that 
through! I have to support IE7+ (not my choice), so I would have to use JS in 
addition to this. (And for some reason, I'm not getting the flex tags in IE10 - 
but I haven't taken a look at why these aren't coming through)


On Nov 15, 2013, at 7:23 PM, David Hucklesby <huckle...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/14/13, 5:43 AM, Sara Haradhvala wrote:
>> I ended up using JavaScript to set the height of each cell - that seems to
>> work in all browsers!
>> 
>> On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Chris Rockwell <ch...@chrisrockwell.com> wrote:
>> 
> [...]
>>> 
>>> Pretty sure display:flex is going to make this a non-issue, so if you're
>>> only needing to work with latest releases, I'd go with that.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Sara Haradhvala <har...@comcast.net>
>>> wrote: Would really appreciate a suggestion and explanation from this
>>> group.
>>> 
>>> I'd like to align a link at the bottom of a table cell. The rest of the
>>> text should be aligned at the top of the cell. I'd also like to leave some
>>> padding above the link so that I can reduce the width of the window and
>>> there's room for the link to wrap to become 3 short lines rather than 1
>>> long line without bumping into the text. I'd like the cell sizes to be
>>> variable if at all possible.
>>> 
> [code snipped]
> 
> A day late and a dollar short, as I am new to flex boxes. But Chris is right,
> and here's my attempt, with table display fallback for old browsers.
> 
> The flex seems to work for far more browsers than I thought. (But I cheated 
> and
> use prefixfree.js to get old versions to work.)
> 
> <http://cdpn.io/ynfie>
> 
> Glad you got some JavaScript that works, Sara. Here's Chris Coyier's solution:
> 
> <http://css-tricks.com/absolutely-position-element-within-a-table-cell/>
> 
> -- 
> Cordially,
> David
> 

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