pythonmatplotlibplotpositionaxis-labels

Move X-Axis label downwards, but not X-Axis Ticks in matplotlib

I'm using Matplotlib to plot a histogram. Using tips from my previous question: Matplotlib - label each bin, I've more or less got the kinks worked out.

There's one final issue - previously - the x-axis label ("Time (in milliseconds)") was being rendered underneath the x-axis tickmarks (0.00, 0.04, 0.08, 0.12 etc.)

No padding - Axis label underneath figures

Using the advice from Joe Kingston (see question above), I tried using:

ax.tick_params(axis='x', pad=30)

However, this moves both the x-axis tickmarks (0.00, 0.04, 0.08, 0.12 etc.), as well as the x-axis label ("Time (in milliseconds)"):

30 Padding - Both Axis Label and Tick Marks have Moved

Is there any way to move only the x-axis label to underneath the three rows of figures?

NB: You may need to open the PNGs below directly - Right Click on the image, then View Image (in FF), or Open image in new tab (Chrome). The image resize done by SO has rendered them nigh unreadable

Solution

  • use labelpad parameter:

    pl.xlabel("...", labelpad=20)

    or set it after:

    ax.xaxis.labelpad = 20