How to remove ticks from the x-axis?

Hi everybody,

I am wondering if there is any way to remove the ticks from only one axis, let say x-axis, when you plot a graph. (TickLength applies the changes to both x- and y-axis which is not what I'd like)

Thank you very much in advance, Vahid

Answer 1

[bym]

set(gca,'XTick',[])

Answer 2

[Bryan Conklin]

h=gca; h.XAxis.TickLength = [0 0];

This will allow you to keep the labels but remove the tick marks on only the x-axis.

[Fenglei Gu]

Thanks!!!! searched for a long time!

[Shaojun Liao]

Thank you so much for helping, hope more people can see it. Because your answer is exactly related to the point.

Answer 3

[Hossein]

but how to keep the numbers?

[Sarah Zinn]

I use

set(gca,'TickLength',[0 0])

but it will affect the YTick as well.

[Aditya Aji wibowo]

Thank's, it works.

Answer 4

[Walter Fanka]

set(gca,'TickLength',[0 .01])
% where 0 is the length of ticks on the x-axis and
%  .01 is the length on the y-axis.

So in this case, the x-axis is "tickless" :)

[LeChat]

This is nice, but would there be a way to remove the ticks only on one side of the graph, and not the one facing it? I would like to have ticks on the main axis but no mirror ticks (I have a box around my graph and I do not want ticks on the other sides of the box). Thank you for your help!

[LeChat]

oh actually I found this which works great:

plot(1:10)
% get handle to current axes
a = gca;
% set box property to off and remove background color
set(a,'box','off','color','none')
% create new, empty axes with box but without ticks
b = axes('Position',get(a,'Position'),'box','on','xtick',[],'ytick',[]);
% set original axes as active
axes(a)
% link axes in case of zooming
linkaxes([a b])

from:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15553720/matlab-remove-only-top-and-right-ticks-with-leaving-box-on