# Can I change axis position in Plots
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [May 7, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966 "2020-05-07T15:55:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Eris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eris)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966/1 "2020-05-07T15:55:19Z")
I’m trying to change an axis position. For example make the xaxis at y=0 instead of y=-3 here
> using Plots
> f(x)=x-3
> plot(f,0,5,xlabel=“x”,ylabel= “y”)
I tried the documentation for Plots but I didn’t find a possible option in axis attributes
[https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/generated/attributes\_axis/](https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/generated/attributes_axis/)
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### Author:  [@L\_Adam](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/L_Adam)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966/2 "2020-05-07T16:20:01Z")
maybe you want `plot(f, 0, 5, xlabel = "x", ylabel = "y", framestyle = :zerolines)`?
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### Author:  [@Eris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eris)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966/3 "2020-05-07T16:29:45Z")
This is good but what I really want is to control the position of the axis not nesccarilly keep it at y=0.
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### Author:  [@BeastyBlacksmith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BeastyBlacksmith)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966/4 "2020-05-07T17:50:37Z")
There is no way to do this rather than modifying the backend plot object after the fact or use the `etra_kwargs` mechanism, thats currently only implemented for the `pgfplotsx` backend
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### Author:  [@mthelm85](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mthelm85)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966/5 "2020-05-07T18:02:53Z")
> [@L\_Adam](#):
>
> plot(f, 0, 5, xlabel = “x”, ylabel = “y”, framestyle = :zerolines)
What about this:
```julia
f(x)=x-3
plot(f, 0, 5, xlabel = "x", ylabel = "y", ylims=(0,Inf), xlims=(3,Inf), legend=:topleft)
```
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### Author:  [@Eris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eris)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966/6 "2020-05-07T18:13:28Z")
But that didn’t shift the x-axis, it is still at y=0
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### Author:  [@mthelm85](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mthelm85)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966/7 "2020-05-07T18:15:45Z")
> For example make the xaxis at y=0
Hmmm, I suppose I don’t understand what the goal is then. Can you post an example of an output you’re trying to achieve?
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### Author:  [@Eris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eris)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966/8 "2020-05-07T18:25:23Z")
I used AxisOrigin in Mathemtica to position the x-axis at y=3 and this is the output
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### Author:  [@mthelm85](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mthelm85)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966/9 "2020-05-07T18:35:03Z")
I see. A quick (and dirty) way would be to just cheat by manually specifying the tick labels, like this:
```julia
plot(
f, 0, 5,
legend=false,
framestyle=:origin,
yticks=(-3:3, ["$i" for i in 0:6])
)
```
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### Author:  [@Eris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eris)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966/10 "2020-05-07T18:37:19Z")
I like it 😄 Thank you!
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### Author:  [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966/11 "2020-05-07T20:16:53Z")
I find that a pretty confusing graph…
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### Author:  [@mcmuffin6o](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mcmuffin6o)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2023, 5:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966/12 "2023-12-01T05:27:22Z")
Would It be possible to do something like this on a 3D plot? GR has decided I don’t need to see the axes if I want to rotate the plot:
Edit: This reply essentially became a duplicate of [this other reply](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/3d-plots-change-axis-intersection-inverse-axis/51109/11). See visuals and workaround there.
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2023, 6:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-i-change-axis-position-in-plots/38966/13 "2023-12-01T06:59:10Z")
[Check workaround here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-move-an-axis-in-a-3d-plot-so-that-it-is-shown-outside-of-the-grid/96365).