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.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "intro/matplotlib/auto_examples/pretty_plots/plot_grid_ext.py"
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.. only:: html

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

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_intro_matplotlib_auto_examples_pretty_plots_plot_grid_ext.py>`
        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.

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 7-65



.. image-sg:: /intro/matplotlib/auto_examples/pretty_plots/images/sphx_glr_plot_grid_ext_001.png
   :alt: plot grid ext
   :srcset: /intro/matplotlib/auto_examples/pretty_plots/images/sphx_glr_plot_grid_ext_001.png
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img


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

 .. code-block:: none


    Text(-0.05, 1.01, '\n\n    Draw ticks and grid ')





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.. 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, 0.87),
            width=0.66,
            height=0.165,
            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,
    )


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   **Total running time of the script:** (0 minutes 0.096 seconds)


.. _sphx_glr_download_intro_matplotlib_auto_examples_pretty_plots_plot_grid_ext.py:

.. only:: html

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

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

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

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

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

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-zip

      :download:`Download zipped: plot_grid_ext.zip <plot_grid_ext.zip>`


.. only:: html

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

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