.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        Click :ref:`here <sphx_glr_download_gallery_pyplots_align_ylabels.py>`     to download the full example code
    .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

    .. _sphx_glr_gallery_pyplots_align_ylabels.py:


==============
Align y-labels
==============

Two methods are shown here, one using a short call to `.Figure.align_ylabels`
and the second a manual way to align the labels.


.. code-block:: default

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


    def make_plot(axs):
        box = dict(facecolor='yellow', pad=5, alpha=0.2)

        # Fixing random state for reproducibility
        np.random.seed(19680801)
        ax1 = axs[0, 0]
        ax1.plot(2000*np.random.rand(10))
        ax1.set_title('ylabels not aligned')
        ax1.set_ylabel('misaligned 1', bbox=box)
        ax1.set_ylim(0, 2000)

        ax3 = axs[1, 0]
        ax3.set_ylabel('misaligned 2', bbox=box)
        ax3.plot(np.random.rand(10))

        ax2 = axs[0, 1]
        ax2.set_title('ylabels aligned')
        ax2.plot(2000*np.random.rand(10))
        ax2.set_ylabel('aligned 1', bbox=box)
        ax2.set_ylim(0, 2000)

        ax4 = axs[1, 1]
        ax4.plot(np.random.rand(10))
        ax4.set_ylabel('aligned 2', bbox=box)


    # Plot 1:
    fig, axs = plt.subplots(2, 2)
    fig.subplots_adjust(left=0.2, wspace=0.6)
    make_plot(axs)

    # just align the last column of axes:
    fig.align_ylabels(axs[:, 1])
    plt.show()




.. image:: /gallery/pyplots/images/sphx_glr_align_ylabels_001.png
    :alt: ylabels not aligned, ylabels aligned
    :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. seealso::
    `.Figure.align_ylabels` and `.Figure.align_labels` for a direct method
    of doing the same thing.
    Also :doc:`/gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/align_labels_demo`


Or we can manually align the axis labels between subplots manually using the
`~.Axis.set_label_coords` method of the y-axis object.  Note this requires
we know a good offset value which is hardcoded.


.. code-block:: default


    fig, axs = plt.subplots(2, 2)
    fig.subplots_adjust(left=0.2, wspace=0.6)

    make_plot(axs)

    labelx = -0.3  # axes coords

    for j in range(2):
        axs[j, 1].yaxis.set_label_coords(labelx, 0.5)

    plt.show()




.. image:: /gallery/pyplots/images/sphx_glr_align_ylabels_002.png
    :alt: ylabels not aligned, ylabels aligned
    :class: sphx-glr-single-img





------------

References
""""""""""

The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
in this example:


.. code-block:: default


    import matplotlib
    matplotlib.figure.Figure.align_ylabels
    matplotlib.axis.Axis.set_label_coords
    matplotlib.axes.Axes.plot
    matplotlib.pyplot.plot
    matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_title
    matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_ylabel
    matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_ylim




.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out

 Out:

 .. code-block:: none


    <function _AxesBase.set_ylim at 0x7f79f277d940>




.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-timing

   **Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  1.273 seconds)


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_pyplots_align_ylabels.py:


.. only :: html

 .. container:: sphx-glr-footer
    :class: sphx-glr-footer-example



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

     :download:`Download Python source code: align_ylabels.py <align_ylabels.py>`



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

     :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: align_ylabels.ipynb <align_ylabels.ipynb>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot
    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery
    <https://sphinx-gallery.readthedocs.io>`_