I would like to add solid y grid lines to my plot according to the y tick in gca.
so I tried:
ax = gca;ax.YGrid = 'on';ax.GridLineStyle = '-';However, this did not work and there is no grid at all in my plot, please help.
MATLAB: Add y grid only to plot
gcagridplot
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Here are two methods to show ticks only on the left axis.
Use yyaxis
This method creates a 2nd y axis on the right that is independently customizable and not used (unless you want to use it).
ax = axes(); box(ax, 'on') % default
% Set axis tick length and direction
ax.XAxis.TickLength = [0 0];ax.YAxis.TickDirection = 'both';% Create 2nd y-axis on right and set y axes colors
% to match the x-axis color
yyaxis rightax2 = gca(); ax.YAxis(1).Color = ax.XAxis.Color; ax.YAxis(2).Color = ax.XAxis.Color; % Remove ticks on right axis
ax.YAxis(2).TickValues = []; % Return control back to the left axes
yyaxis leftSee image below for results.
Use xline and yline at axis limits
ax = axes(); box(ax, 'off') % defaultax.XAxis.TickLength = [0 0];If you want the y-ticks to be in both directions,
ax.YAxis.TickDirection = 'both';If you want the right and upper axes lines but without ticks, you can make is appear as though 'box' is 'on' by setting the axis limits and adding a xline and yline.
% This syntax just sets the axis limits to their current value
xlim(ax, xlim(ax))ylim(ax, ylim(ax))% Set right and upper axis lines to same color as axes
xline(max(xlim(ax)), 'k-', 'Color', ax.XAxis.Color)yline(max(ylim(ax)), 'k-', 'Color', ax.YAxis.Color)If the axis limits change after this change, the pseudo-box lines will no longer be positioned correctly so this should happen after all other plotting and positioning is done on the axes. The first method is therefore safer.
Final result for both methods
plot(rand(1,20))yticklabels([])grid on
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