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HTML

<table>
        <tr>
            <td><a id="a1">sad</a></td>
              <td>
                  <label>asdasdasd</label>
            </td>
        </tr>
      <tr>
            <td><a id="a2">sad</a></td>
              <td>
                  <label>asdasdasd</label>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>

CSS

a#a1 {
    display:block;
    height:50px;
    background:yellow
}

a#a2 {
    display:block;
    height:80px;
    background:yellow
}

label{
    position:absolute;
    display:block;
    background:orange;
    height:100%
}

td{
    position:relative;
        vertical-align:top;
}