.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/spines/spines_dropped.py"
.. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW.

.. only:: html

    .. meta::
        :keywords: codex

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

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_gallery_spines_spines_dropped.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_spines_spines_dropped.py:


==============
Dropped spines
==============

Demo of spines offset from the axes (a.k.a. "dropped spines").

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 8-38



.. image-sg:: /gallery/spines/images/sphx_glr_spines_dropped_001.png
   :alt: spines dropped
   :srcset: /gallery/spines/images/sphx_glr_spines_dropped_001.png, /gallery/spines/images/sphx_glr_spines_dropped_001_2_00x.png 2.00x
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. code-block:: Python

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np


    def adjust_spines(ax, visible_spines):
        ax.label_outer(remove_inner_ticks=True)
        ax.grid(color='0.9')

        for loc, spine in ax.spines.items():
            if loc in visible_spines:
                spine.set_position(('outward', 10))  # outward by 10 points
            else:
                spine.set_visible(False)


    x = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 100)

    fig, axs = plt.subplots(2, 2)

    axs[0, 0].plot(x, np.sin(x))
    axs[0, 1].plot(x, np.cos(x))
    axs[1, 0].plot(x, -np.cos(x))
    axs[1, 1].plot(x, -np.sin(x))

    adjust_spines(axs[0, 0], ['left'])
    adjust_spines(axs[0, 1], [])
    adjust_spines(axs[1, 0], ['left', 'bottom'])
    adjust_spines(axs[1, 1], ['bottom'])

    plt.show()


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_spines_spines_dropped.py:

.. only:: html

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

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

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

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

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


.. only:: html

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

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_