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.. _demo-colorbar-with-axes-divider:

=========================
Colorbar with AxesDivider
=========================

The `.axes_divider.make_axes_locatable` function takes an existing axes, adds
it to a new `.AxesDivider` and returns the `.AxesDivider`.  The `.append_axes`
method of the `.AxesDivider` can then be used to create a new axes on a given
side ("top", "right", "bottom", or "left") of the original axes. This example
uses `.append_axes` to add colorbars next to axes.

Users should consider simply passing the main axes to the *ax* keyword argument of
`~.Figure.colorbar` instead of creating a locatable axes manually like this.
See :ref:`colorbar_placement`.

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.. image-sg:: /gallery/axes_grid1/images/sphx_glr_demo_colorbar_with_axes_divider_001.png
   :alt: demo colorbar with axes divider
   :srcset: /gallery/axes_grid1/images/sphx_glr_demo_colorbar_with_axes_divider_001.png, /gallery/axes_grid1/images/sphx_glr_demo_colorbar_with_axes_divider_001_2_00x.png 2.00x
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.. code-block:: Python


    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.axes_divider import make_axes_locatable

    fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(1, 2)
    fig.subplots_adjust(wspace=0.5)

    im1 = ax1.imshow([[1, 2], [3, 4]])
    ax1_divider = make_axes_locatable(ax1)
    # Add an Axes to the right of the main Axes.
    cax1 = ax1_divider.append_axes("right", size="7%", pad="2%")
    cb1 = fig.colorbar(im1, cax=cax1)

    im2 = ax2.imshow([[1, 2], [3, 4]])
    ax2_divider = make_axes_locatable(ax2)
    # Add an Axes above the main Axes.
    cax2 = ax2_divider.append_axes("top", size="7%", pad="2%")
    cb2 = fig.colorbar(im2, cax=cax2, orientation="horizontal")
    # Change tick position to top (with the default tick position "bottom", ticks
    # overlap the image).
    cax2.xaxis.set_ticks_position("top")

    plt.show()


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