# Makie: is it possible to draw major and minor ticks on all four axes?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-it-possible-to-draw-major-and-minor-ticks-on-all-four-axes/66911
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** makie
**Created:** [August 24, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-it-possible-to-draw-major-and-minor-ticks-on-all-four-axes/66911 "2021-08-24T13:12:09Z")
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### Author:  [@liuyxpp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/liuyxpp)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-it-possible-to-draw-major-and-minor-ticks-on-all-four-axes/66911/1 "2021-08-24T13:12:09Z")
I can not find the solution from the doc. Note that I do not mean twin axes. I just want to pair the ticks for left and right axes, and bottom and top axes, respectively. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-it-possible-to-draw-major-and-minor-ticks-on-all-four-axes/66911/2 "2021-08-24T13:31:46Z")
I never implemented those, no. But you can add them with a little bit of extra work. You can examine ax.elements[:xaxis] for example, it has observables that hold the tick positions, you just need to mirror them over to the other side and add them via linesegments
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### Author:  [@liuyxpp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/liuyxpp)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-it-possible-to-draw-major-and-minor-ticks-on-all-four-axes/66911/3 "2021-08-24T13:34:55Z")
But this seems a basic functionality for a plotting software? Python’s matplotlib do it with a simple option: `xtick.top = True` and `ytick.right = True`. And a bunch of physics journal seems to prefer such axis layout.
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-it-possible-to-draw-major-and-minor-ticks-on-all-four-axes/66911/4 "2021-08-24T13:35:59Z")
Yes it could be useful, we always appreciate PRs for missing features
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### Author:  [@Pablo\_Marchant](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Pablo_Marchant)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-it-possible-to-draw-major-and-minor-ticks-on-all-four-axes/66911/5 "2022-12-23T13:47:08Z")
Just wanted to leave a workaround I found while running into this same problem. One can get ticks on all sides by creating a linked axis on top ticking top and right.
```julia
using Makie
using CairoMakie
f = Figure()
ga = f[1, 1] = GridLayout()
axis = Axis(ga[1,1])
scatter!(axis,rand(10),rand(10))
# create axis on top to get ticks on all sides
axis_ticks = Axis(ga[1,1], yaxisposition = :right, xaxisposition = :top, rightspinevisible = false, leftspinevisible = false, topspinevisible = false, bottomspinevisible = false)
linkaxes!(axis, axis_ticks)
hidexdecorations!(axis_ticks,ticks=false, minorticks=false)
hideydecorations!(axis_ticks,ticks=false, minorticks=false)
save("example.png",f)
```
Which gives me:
Would be great to have the possibility to set yaxisposition and xaxisposition to :both to specify this without needing an extra axis. Never gone into the Makie source code but might try to have a jab at it and submit a PR.
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-it-possible-to-draw-major-and-minor-ticks-on-all-four-axes/66911/6 "2022-12-23T14:21:53Z")
This feature exists now: [https://docs.makie.org/stable/examples/blocks/axis/index.html#mirrored\_ticks](https://docs.makie.org/stable/examples/blocks/axis/index.html#mirrored_ticks)
```julia
f = Figure()
Axis(f[1, 1],
xticks = 0:10,
yticks = 0:10,
xticksmirrored = true,
yticksmirrored = true,
xminorticksvisible = true,
yminorticksvisible = true,
xminortickalign = 1,
yminortickalign = 1,
xtickalign = 1,
ytickalign = 1,
)
f
```
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### Author:  [@Pablo\_Marchant](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Pablo_Marchant)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-it-possible-to-draw-major-and-minor-ticks-on-all-four-axes/66911/7 "2022-12-23T15:12:54Z")
Excellent!
much better than my dirty hack
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### Author:  [@Pablo\_Marchant](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Pablo_Marchant)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-it-possible-to-draw-major-and-minor-ticks-on-all-four-axes/66911/8 "2022-12-23T15:45:55Z")
Although it seems to have an issue when using layouts and `rowsize!`
```julia
using Makie
using CairoMakie
f = Figure()
ga = f[1, 1] = GridLayout()
axtop = Axis(ga[1,1],xticksmirrored = true, yticksmirrored = true, xtickalign=1,ytickalign=1)
axbottom = Axis(ga[2,1],xticksmirrored = true, yticksmirrored = true, xtickalign=1,ytickalign=1)
rowsize!(ga,1,Auto(0.3))
save("example.png",f)
f
```
This one seems to place the top ticks for the bottom plot in the position where the axis would be absent `rowsize!` (and indeed it works if one does not use `rowsize!`)
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-it-possible-to-draw-major-and-minor-ticks-on-all-four-axes/66911/9 "2022-12-23T17:29:54Z")
Hm seems like updating the ticks is still a little buggy, I think there’s already an issue about that
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### Author:  [@liuyxpp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/liuyxpp)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-is-it-possible-to-draw-major-and-minor-ticks-on-all-four-axes/66911/10 "2022-12-26T02:20:01Z")
Thanks for updating this! It is very handy.