# Move Colorbar to left

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/move-colorbar-to-left/116667>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** makie\
**Created:** [July 5, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/move-colorbar-to-left/116667 "2024-07-05T14:40:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Midez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@Midez](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Midez)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/move-colorbar-to-left/116667/1 "2024-07-05T14:40:22Z")

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Hello, is it possible moving the Colorbar from left to right, that is to say switching it with the y axis ? I have nothing found in the docs as to how achieving this.

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/move-colorbar-to-left/116667/2 "2024-07-05T15:15:01Z")

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Do you mean `flipaxis`?

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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Berge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Daniel\_Berge](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Daniel_Berge)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/move-colorbar-to-left/116667/3 "2024-07-05T15:22:23Z")

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Or do you mean to do something like this to make a Heatmap for example with the colorbar to the left, and the heatmap y axis ticks moved to the right?

```julia
fig = Figure()
ax = Axis(fig[1,1], yaxisposition=:right)
hm = heatmap!(ax, rand(1000,1000))
Colorbar(fig[1,end-1], hm)
fig

```

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**Author:** ![Midez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@Midez](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Midez)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/move-colorbar-to-left/116667/4 "2024-07-05T15:25:51Z")

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Actually the solution below from Daniel\_Berge is exactly what I need. Never would have thought about that.

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/move-colorbar-to-left/116667/5 "2024-07-05T15:43:55Z")

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The `GridLayout` “indexing” doesn’t work like with an array. It’s made for convenience, and one idea is that you can extend the current grid by referencing rows or columns that don’t exist yet. It starts with one row and one column at position 1 by default. But you can add another column at index 0 as shown above (the `end-1`). But you can also do `Axis(fig[1, 2])` and `Colorbar(fig[1, 1])`, that has the same effect.