# Remove top or bottom axis in :box plot
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-top-or-bottom-axis-in-box-plot/100897
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** plotting, pyplot, plots
**Created:** [June 27, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-top-or-bottom-axis-in-box-plot/100897 "2023-06-27T15:01:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@cmdenis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cmdenis)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-top-or-bottom-axis-in-box-plot/100897/1 "2023-06-27T15:01:08Z")
Hi there,
I’ve been searching for a way of doing this, but cannot find anything…
I’ve been trying to make a box plot but with a missing axis. Essentially, I would like to get the results given by
```julia
plot(framestyle = :box)
```
but with the top axis missing (or the bottom one missing). I can remove both the top and bottom x-axis at once, by doing something like
```julia
plot(framestyle = :box, xaxis = false)
```
but I would like to only remove either the top or the bottom.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2023, 10:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-top-or-bottom-axis-in-box-plot/100897/2 "2023-06-27T22:33:24Z")
Try something like:
```julia
using Plots
p = plot(sin, framestyle=:axis, widen=false)
vline!([xlims(p)[2]], lc=:black, lw=2)
```
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### Author:  [@cmdenis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cmdenis)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 7:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-top-or-bottom-axis-in-box-plot/100897/3 "2023-06-28T07:19:25Z")
Hmm, yeah that could work, but I wonder if there is not a buit-in way of doing that.
Especially if I’d like to have tick marks on both sides and stuff like that.
But thanks for the idea!
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 8:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-top-or-bottom-axis-in-box-plot/100897/4 "2023-06-28T08:28:08Z")
> [@cmdenis](#):
>
> Especially if I’d like to have tick marks on both sides and stuff like that.
The `:box` frame style doesn’t seem to provide tick marks on both sides, at least on GR backend.
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### Author:  [@cmdenis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cmdenis)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-top-or-bottom-axis-in-box-plot/100897/5 "2023-06-28T13:10:10Z")
Oh yeah, you’re totally right, I should’ve specified.
I’m using the PyPlot backend. You get tick marks on that backend.
```julia
pyplot()
plot(framestyle = :box)
```
produces
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-top-or-bottom-axis-in-box-plot/100897/6 "2023-06-28T21:40:56Z")
Ok, for such partial boxing using Plots.jl you could do:
```julia
using Plots; pyplot(dpi=100) # or: gr(), etc.
p = plot(sin, framestyle=:axes, widen=false)
plot!(twinx(p), grid=:on, ylims=ylims(p), yformatter=_->"")
```
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### Author:  [@cmdenis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cmdenis)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-top-or-bottom-axis-in-box-plot/100897/7 "2023-06-29T12:31:40Z")
Oh awesome! That’s what I was looking for.
Thanks!