# How to give proper order in xaxis during boxplot?

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**Created:** [May 22, 2023, 8:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-give-proper-order-in-xaxis-during-boxplot/99206 "2023-05-22T08:52:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-give-proper-order-in-xaxis-during-boxplot/99206/4 "2023-05-22T09:32:12Z")

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> [@How to adjust the X-axis order of boxplot with StatsPlots.jl](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-adjust-the-x-axis-order-of-boxplot-with-statsplots-jl/56065/9):
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> Hi, @mkborregaard, I have no knowledge of internal details. But how about @df df boxplot(string.(:id), :value, fillalpha=0.75, linewidth=1, xorder=[3, 17, 21]) Or we may pass into a custom sort function to sort the specific column in a df. @df df boxplot(string.(:id), :value, fillalpha=0.75, linewidth=1, xsort=sort) The above two lpad and sprintf workarounds work well for this particular example. But what if I want the order to be 21 3 17? Of course, I can still fi…

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