Agreed. I built a simple data table component for a company I was interviewing with a while ago [1]. At first, I placed the pagination controls at the bottom b

Agreed. I built a simple data table component for a company I was interviewing with a while ago [1]. At first, I placed the pagination controls at the bottom because it felt like the natural thing to do, but later I discovered that the UX for navigating between pages with different number of items (or larger items spanning multiple lines) felt rather sub-par because of the variable height table making the pagination controls shift up and down from page to page. Moving the pagination controls to the top (fixed position) makes navigation feel completely effortless in comparison. [1] http://lewisl9029.github.io/redux-data-table/ http://lewisl9029.github.io/redux-data-table/