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HTML

<table>
    <tr>
        <td align="right" style="border:1px solid; padding:1px;"> 
            <span id="sort"> 
                <a href="#">link</a>
            </span>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td style="width:300px">456</td>
    </tr>
</table>

CSS

#sort:after {
 content:"^";
 padding-left:10px;
}