MATLAB: What are normalized positions of a legend with respect to in MATLAB 7.10 (R2010a)

legendMATLABnormalizedposition;

Please execute the following commands:
figure;
h = plot(0:10, 0:10);
grid;
lh = legend(h,'xxx','northwest');
lpos = get(lh, 'Position')
lpos should give the following result:
lpos =
    0.7551    0.8512    0.1411    0.0556
However the lower lefthand corner starts at somewhere beyond 8.0 but lpos(1) says 0.7551 on the scale from 0 to 10, indicating the lower lefthand corner should start at somewhere 7.5. Why this discrepancy?

Best Answer

Normalized positions of a legend are with respect to the figure that contains it, not with respect to the axis as Legend is a child of Figure not of Axis.
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