MATLAB: Is it possible to bring “grid on” to the front of a figure

Question

Dear all,

Normally when I use the grid on it appears behind my figure, but I need to bring it on my figure. Is it possible? I searched and found a code to burn a grid into an image but here I have a figure.

Here is my figure:

And this the summarized code to generate it:

S = shaperead ('country_Boundary.shp');
lon = S.X;
lat = S.Y;
plot(lon, lat, '-k')
grid on
set(gca,'YTick',(24:.5:44))
set(gca,'XTick',(44:.5:64))

Thank you for any suggestions.

Answer 1

By default, all plotted objects are rendered on top of the axis (including axis lines, grid lines, etc). You can reverse that by modifying the layer property:

set(gca, 'layer', 'top');