# Change spacing between xticks

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-spacing-between-xticks/47257>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** plotting\
**Created:** [September 25, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-spacing-between-xticks/47257 "2020-09-25T12:00:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![HenriDeh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/henrideh/32/8316_2.png) [@HenriDeh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HenriDeh)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-spacing-between-xticks/47257/1 "2020-09-25T12:00:35Z")

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Hiii,

I would like to stack a bar plot and a box plot and have their boxes align. But I can’t find a way to do this. Here’s a MWE :

```julia
using DataFrames, StatsPlots, StatsBase
df = DataFrame(a = rand(1:6, 30), b = rand(30))
p = boxplot(df.a, df.b)
cm = countmap(df.a)
f = bar(cm)

fp = plot(f,p, layout = grid(2,1, heights = (0.2,0.8)))

```

Which gives this

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/7/4/74e8aa111a48763d96f5f054228d8db3582d0c65.png)

The central bars are more or less aligned but you can see that 1 and 6 are offset.

Thank you !

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**Author:** ![HenriDeh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/henrideh/32/8316_2.png) [@HenriDeh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HenriDeh)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-spacing-between-xticks/47257/2 "2020-09-25T12:20:39Z")

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using `f = bar(cm, widen = false)` worked

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**Author:** ![mkborregaard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkborregaard/32/556_2.png) [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-spacing-between-xticks/47257/3 "2020-09-25T13:52:03Z")

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I wonder why `widen` is `false` for boxplots 🤔

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**Author:** ![HenriDeh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/henrideh/32/8316_2.png) [@HenriDeh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HenriDeh)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-spacing-between-xticks/47257/4 "2020-09-25T14:08:41Z")

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Yes defaults seem to change from one recipe to another…