# How to avoid messing up x-axis like this?

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**Category:** New to Julia\
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**Created:** [June 15, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-avoid-messing-up-x-axis-like-this/100394 "2023-06-15T12:28:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sahil\_Khan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sahil_khan/32/47573_2.png) [@Sahil\_Khan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sahil_Khan)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-avoid-messing-up-x-axis-like-this/100394/1 "2023-06-15T12:28:12Z")

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How can i make them aligning vertically? i’m using corrplot (from StatsPlots). In one of small plots i have big values in range 10^-5.

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**Author:** ![jling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jling/32/212909_2.png) [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 12:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-avoid-messing-up-x-axis-like-this/100394/2 "2023-06-15T12:29:01Z")

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it’s impossible to help you without knowing what package / code cause that in the first place

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**Author:** ![KZ-Spectra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2acd7d/32.png) [@KZ-Spectra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/KZ-Spectra)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-avoid-messing-up-x-axis-like-this/100394/3 "2023-06-15T12:30:39Z")

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Most likely the xaxis has a “tick” size such that the x-values displayed clutter the screen. See “xticks” in whatever plotting library you are using.

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**Author:** ![Sahil\_Khan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sahil_khan/32/47573_2.png) [@Sahil\_Khan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sahil_Khan)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-avoid-messing-up-x-axis-like-this/100394/4 "2023-06-15T12:33:15Z")

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I want to know how can i set xaxis ticks vertical?

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**Author:** ![KZ-Spectra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2acd7d/32.png) [@KZ-Spectra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/KZ-Spectra)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-avoid-messing-up-x-axis-like-this/100394/5 "2023-06-15T12:38:04Z")

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I do not quite understand what you mean by setting the ticks to be vertical. Could you please clarify?

Here: [Axis · Makie](https://docs.makie.org/stable/examples/blocks/axis/#xticks) is some more information if you are using `Makie` for plotting.

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**Author:** ![Sahil\_Khan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sahil_khan/32/47573_2.png) [@Sahil\_Khan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sahil_Khan)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 12:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-avoid-messing-up-x-axis-like-this/100394/6 "2023-06-15T12:40:27Z")

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I found it. `xrotation = 45 or 90 or something else`

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