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Title positioningΒΆ
Matplotlib can display plot titles centered, flush with the left side of a set of axes, and flush with the right side of a set of axes.
![Left Title, Center Title, Right Title](../../_images/sphx_glr_titles_demo_001.png)
The vertical position is automatically chosen to avoid decorations (i.e. labels and ticks) on the topmost x-axis:
fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, 2, constrained_layout=True)
ax = axs[0]
ax.plot(range(10))
ax.xaxis.set_label_position('top')
ax.set_xlabel('X-label')
ax.set_title('Center Title')
ax = axs[1]
ax.plot(range(10))
ax.xaxis.set_label_position('top')
ax.xaxis.tick_top()
ax.set_xlabel('X-label')
ax.set_title('Center Title')
plt.show()
![Center Title, Center Title](../../_images/sphx_glr_titles_demo_002.png)
Automatic positioning can be turned off by manually specifying the
y kwarg for the title or setting rcParams["axes.titley"]
(default: None
) in the rcParams.
fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, 2, constrained_layout=True)
ax = axs[0]
ax.plot(range(10))
ax.xaxis.set_label_position('top')
ax.set_xlabel('X-label')
ax.set_title('Manual y', y=1.0, pad=-14)
plt.rcParams['axes.titley'] = 1.0 # y is in axes-relative co-ordinates.
plt.rcParams['axes.titlepad'] = -14 # pad is in points...
ax = axs[1]
ax.plot(range(10))
ax.set_xlabel('X-label')
ax.set_title('rcParam y')
plt.show()
![Manual y, rcParam y](../../_images/sphx_glr_titles_demo_003.png)
Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 1.147 seconds)
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