.. only:: html
.. note::
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Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code
.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title
.. _sphx_glr_gallery_recipes_placing_text_boxes.py:
Placing text boxes
==================
When decorating axes with text boxes, two useful tricks are to place the text
in axes coordinates (see :doc:`/tutorials/advanced/transforms_tutorial`),
so the text doesn't move around with changes in x or y limits. You
can also use the ``bbox`` property of text to surround the text with a
`~matplotlib.patches.Patch` instance -- the ``bbox`` keyword argument takes a
dictionary with keys that are Patch properties.
.. image:: /gallery/recipes/images/sphx_glr_placing_text_boxes_001.png
:alt: placing text boxes
:class: sphx-glr-single-img
.. code-block:: default
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
np.random.seed(19680801)
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
x = 30*np.random.randn(10000)
mu = x.mean()
median = np.median(x)
sigma = x.std()
textstr = '\n'.join((
r'$\mu=%.2f$' % (mu, ),
r'$\mathrm{median}=%.2f$' % (median, ),
r'$\sigma=%.2f$' % (sigma, )))
ax.hist(x, 50)
# these are matplotlib.patch.Patch properties
props = dict(boxstyle='round', facecolor='wheat', alpha=0.5)
# place a text box in upper left in axes coords
ax.text(0.05, 0.95, textstr, transform=ax.transAxes, fontsize=14,
verticalalignment='top', bbox=props)
plt.show()
.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_recipes_placing_text_boxes.py:
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.. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python
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