Table always goes to bottom of document? [duplicate]

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How to fix table position

I'm defining a table in my document like so...

\begin{table}
 \caption{my table}
 \centering

  \begin{tabular}{c llll c c c c}
  \hline         
   Stuff & \multicolumn {1}{ c }{  } & more Stuff
  \end{tabular}
  \label{table:nonlin} 
\end{table}

The table itself is pretty big, takes up almost the entire page. I'm creating it between two blocks of text however when compiled into a pdf it appears to just "float" to the bottom of the document. Why is this happening? How do I correct it?

Answer 1

The environment table is supposed to float so it's working as intended. Actually it's often a good practice to let LaTeX place the floats.

To control the placement of the table you can provide the environment with options. For example you can use the option htbp as in

\begin{table}[htbp]
...
\end{table}

See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables#The_table_environment_-_captioning_etc for details.