.. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_intro_matplotlib_auto_examples_pretty_plots_plot_grid_ext.py: Grid elaborate =============== An example displaying a grid on the axes and tweaking the layout. .. image:: /intro/matplotlib/auto_examples/pretty_plots/images/sphx_glr_plot_grid_ext_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6), dpi=72, facecolor="white") axes = plt.subplot(111) axes.set_xlim(0, 4) axes.set_ylim(0, 3) axes.xaxis.set_major_locator(MultipleLocator(1.0)) axes.xaxis.set_minor_locator(MultipleLocator(0.1)) axes.yaxis.set_major_locator(MultipleLocator(1.0)) axes.yaxis.set_minor_locator(MultipleLocator(0.1)) axes.grid(which='major', axis='x', linewidth=0.75, linestyle='-', color='0.75') axes.grid(which='minor', axis='x', linewidth=0.25, linestyle='-', color='0.75') axes.grid(which='major', axis='y', linewidth=0.75, linestyle='-', color='0.75') axes.grid(which='minor', axis='y', linewidth=0.25, linestyle='-', color='0.75') axes.set_xticklabels([]) axes.set_yticklabels([]) # Add a title and a box around it from matplotlib.patches import FancyBboxPatch ax = plt.gca() ax.add_patch(FancyBboxPatch((-0.05, .87), width=.66, height=.165, clip_on=False, boxstyle="square,pad=0", zorder=3, facecolor='white', alpha=1.0, transform=plt.gca().transAxes)) plt.text(-0.05, 1.02, " Grid: plt.grid(...)\n", horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='top', size='xx-large', transform=axes.transAxes) plt.text(-0.05, 1.01, "\n\n Draw ticks and grid ", horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='top', size='large', transform=axes.transAxes) **Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes 0.021 seconds) .. _sphx_glr_download_intro_matplotlib_auto_examples_pretty_plots_plot_grid_ext.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: plot_grid_ext.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: plot_grid_ext.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_