Data Structure
Networking
RDBMS
Operating System
Java
MS Excel
iOS
HTML
CSS
Android
Python
C Programming
C++
C#
MongoDB
MySQL
Javascript
PHP
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Mathematics
English
Economics
Psychology
Social Studies
Fashion Studies
Legal Studies
- Selected Reading
- UPSC IAS Exams Notes
- Developer's Best Practices
- Questions and Answers
- Effective Resume Writing
- HR Interview Questions
- Computer Glossary
- Who is Who
How to put xtick labels in a box matplotlib?
To put xtick labels in a box, we can take the following steps
Steps
Create a new figure or activate an existing figure.
Get the current axis of the figure.
Set the left and bottom position of the axes.
Set the position of the spines, i.e., bottom and left.
To put xtick labels in a box, iterate the ticklabels and use set_bbox() method.
To display the figure, use Show() method.
Example
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [7.00, 3.50]
plt.rcParams["figure.autolayout"] = True
plt.figure()
ax = plt.gca()
ax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('bottom')
ax.yaxis.set_ticks_position('left')
ax.spines['bottom'].set_position(('data', 0))
ax.spines['left'].set_position(('data', 0))
for label in ax.get_xticklabels():
label.set_fontsize(12)
label.set_bbox(dict(facecolor='red', edgecolor='black', alpha=0.7))
plt.show()Output
It will produce the following output −
Updated on: 19-Oct-2021
433 Views
Advertisements