\parbox

LaTeX2e help 1.6

### 2.17.17: \parbox

`\parbox[position][height][inner-pos]{width}{text}`

A `parbox` is a box whose contents are created in `paragraph` mode. The `\parbox` has two mandatory arguments:

- `width` - specifies the width of the parbox, and
- `text` - the text that goes inside the parbox.

LaTeX will position a `parbox` so its centre lines up with the centre of the text line. The optional position argument allows you to line up either the top or bottom line in the parbox (default is top).

If the height argument is not given, the box will have the natural height of the text.

The inner-pos argument controls the placement of the text inside the box. If it is not specified, position is used.

- `t` --- text is placed at the top of the box.
- `c` --- text is centred in the box.
- `b` --- text is placed at the bottom of the box.
- `s` --- stretch vertically. The text must contain vertically stretchable space for this to work.

A `\parbox` command is used for a parbox containing a small piece of text, with nothing fancy inside. In particular, you shouldn't use any of the paragraph-making environments inside a `\parbox` argument. For larger pieces of text, including ones containing a paragraph-making environment, you should use a `minipage` environment See minipage.