.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/text_alignment.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_text_labels_and_annotations_text_alignment.py>`
        to download the full example code

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

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_text_alignment.py:


==============
Text alignment
==============

Texts are aligned relative to their anchor point depending on the properties
``horizontalalignment`` (default: ``left``) and ``verticalalignment``
(default: ``baseline``.)

.. redirect-from:: /gallery/pyplots/text_layout

.. plot::

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np

    y = [0.22, 0.34, 0.5, 0.56, 0.78]
    x = [0.17, 0.5, 0.855]
    X, Y = np.meshgrid(x, y)

    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(6, 4), dpi=100)
    ax.set(xlim=(0, 1), ylim=(0, 1), xticks=[], yticks=[])
    ax.spines[:].set_visible(False)
    ax.text(0.5, 0.5, 'plot', fontsize=128, ha='center', va='center', zorder=1)
    ax.hlines(y, x[0], x[-1], color='grey')
    ax.vlines(x, y[0], y[-1], color='grey')
    ax.plot(X.ravel(), Y.ravel(), 'o')
    pad_x = 0.02
    pad_y = 0.04
    ax.text(x[0] - pad_x, y[0], 'bottom', ha='right', va='center')
    ax.text(x[0] - pad_x, y[1], 'baseline', ha='right', va='center')
    ax.text(x[0] - pad_x, y[2], 'center', ha='right', va='center')
    ax.text(x[0] - pad_x, y[3], 'center_baseline', ha='right', va='center')
    ax.text(x[0] - pad_x, y[4], 'top', ha='right', va='center')
    ax.text(x[0], y[0] - pad_y, 'left', ha='center', va='top')
    ax.text(x[1], y[0] - pad_y, 'center', ha='center', va='top')
    ax.text(x[2], y[0] - pad_y, 'right', ha='center', va='top')
    ax.set_xlabel('horizontalalignment', fontsize=14)
    ax.set_ylabel('verticalalignment', fontsize=14, labelpad=35)
    ax.set_title(
        'Relative position of text anchor point depending on alignment')
    plt.show()

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 47-48

The following plot uses this to align text relative to a plotted rectangle.

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 48-120

.. code-block:: Python


    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    fig, ax = plt.subplots()

    # Build a rectangle in axes coords
    left, width = .25, .5
    bottom, height = .25, .5
    right = left + width
    top = bottom + height
    p = plt.Rectangle((left, bottom), width, height, fill=False)
    p.set_transform(ax.transAxes)
    p.set_clip_on(False)
    ax.add_patch(p)

    ax.text(left, bottom, 'left top',
            horizontalalignment='left',
            verticalalignment='top',
            transform=ax.transAxes)

    ax.text(left, bottom, 'left bottom',
            horizontalalignment='left',
            verticalalignment='bottom',
            transform=ax.transAxes)

    ax.text(right, top, 'right bottom',
            horizontalalignment='right',
            verticalalignment='bottom',
            transform=ax.transAxes)

    ax.text(right, top, 'right top',
            horizontalalignment='right',
            verticalalignment='top',
            transform=ax.transAxes)

    ax.text(right, bottom, 'center top',
            horizontalalignment='center',
            verticalalignment='top',
            transform=ax.transAxes)

    ax.text(left, 0.5 * (bottom + top), 'right center',
            horizontalalignment='right',
            verticalalignment='center',
            rotation='vertical',
            transform=ax.transAxes)

    ax.text(left, 0.5 * (bottom + top), 'left center',
            horizontalalignment='left',
            verticalalignment='center',
            rotation='vertical',
            transform=ax.transAxes)

    ax.text(0.5 * (left + right), 0.5 * (bottom + top), 'middle',
            horizontalalignment='center',
            verticalalignment='center',
            transform=ax.transAxes)

    ax.text(right, 0.5 * (bottom + top), 'centered',
            horizontalalignment='center',
            verticalalignment='center',
            rotation='vertical',
            transform=ax.transAxes)

    ax.text(left, top, 'rotated\nwith newlines',
            horizontalalignment='center',
            verticalalignment='center',
            rotation=45,
            transform=ax.transAxes)

    ax.set_axis_off()

    plt.show()



.. image-sg:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_text_alignment_001.png
   :alt: text alignment
   :srcset: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_text_alignment_001.png, /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_text_alignment_001_2_00x.png 2.00x
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img






.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_text_alignment.py:

.. only:: html

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

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

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

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

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


.. only:: html

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

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