Placement of text e.g. suptitle inside the frame

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So far i have placed my suptitles above the frame, like this:

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How can i get the suptitles from above the frame into the frame?

So far i have a solution that just prints a text and sets it on the right position with computing xlim and ylim. However this is errorprone and if the text is different it just looks aweful. Is there a way to set the suplabel into the frame? Or just place text below the frame and centered? it would be really convenient, if i did not need to know about the data that is displayed inside the frame.

Tobias · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-05T09:56:53.287

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Your solution using text is also my go-to solution. However, you don't need to compute the position based on xlim and ylim. If you set transform=ax.transAxes the coordinates for positioning the text are taken as being relative to the axes bounding box (0,0 being the lower left corner). Like so:

data = range(1,10);
fig = figure()
for i in range(6):
    ax = fig.add_subplot(2,3,i)

    ax.text(.5,.9,'centered title',
        horizontalalignment='center',
        transform=ax.transAxes)

    ax.plot(data)
show()

Plot showing text relative to axes bounding box.

Hope that helps!

edited May 05 '14 at 09:56

answered Oct 18 '12 at 16:01

Tobias

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so if i supposedly wanted to add a b c d on the upper left edge of these plots, who were all different ranges, how would i do that? – tarrasch Oct 22 '12 at 12:29
@tarrasch In this case, you may want to use `(0.0,1.0)` for the coordinates (or something like `0.1,0.9` to allow for a bit of space), see [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/8482667/9655481) and the [examples in the matplotlib docs](https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.text.html) – Splines Aug 12 '22 at 10:20

score 40 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 25 '22 at 01:44

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Have you considered axes.set_title? You can also pass x and y coordinates as keyword arguments ax.set_title("my title", x=0.5, y=0.6).

Hope this helps.

edited Oct 25 '22 at 01:44

Michael Hall

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answered Oct 18 '12 at 16:01

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This seems like the simplest solution. – Steven C. Howell Apr 14 '15 at 02:43
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Or even `ax.title("my title", position=(0.5, 0.6))` – Alex Aug 12 '15 at 13:33
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That would be `matplotlib.pyplot.title`, or `axis.set_title`. – tsbertalan Feb 05 '16 at 23:35

Placement of text e.g. suptitle inside the frame

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