# Setting axis properties in a Makie recipe

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/setting-axis-properties-in-a-makie-recipe/125863>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, package\
**Created:** [February 13, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/setting-axis-properties-in-a-makie-recipe/125863 "2025-02-13T13:19:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![prittjam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/prittjam/32/21267_2.png) [@prittjam](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/prittjam)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/setting-axis-properties-in-a-makie-recipe/125863/2 "2025-02-13T13:40:17Z")

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This is from 3 years ago:

> [@Accessing axis in Makie plot recipes](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/accessing-axis-in-makie-plot-recipes/66006/3):
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> What about just applying a theme to the Axis, not a full programmatic access to it? For instance, I was hoping that in this recipe the newly created Axis would have a certain background color, etc, but it seems the theme information was not used in any way. struct TestStruct data end ts = TestStruct([1,2,3]) @recipe(TestRecipe) do scene Theme( Axis = ( backgroundcolor = :gray90, leftspinevisible = false, rightspinevisible = false, bottomspinevisible…

it seems that the problem is not resolved, yet.

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