.. _docs-meteoinfolab-funcitons-plot-axes:


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axes
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.. currentmodule:: mipylib.plotlib.miplot

.. function:: axes(**kwarg)

    Add an axes to the figure.
    
    :param position: (*list*) Optional, axes position specified by *position=* [left, bottom, width
        height] in normalized (0, 1) units. Default is [0.13, 0.11, 0.775, 0.815].
    :param bgcolor: (*Color*) Optional, axes background color.
    :param bottomaxis: (*boolean*) Optional, set bottom axis visible or not. Default is ``True`` .
    :param leftaxis: (*boolean*) Optional, set left axis visible or not. Default is ``True`` .
    :param topaxis: (*boolean*) Optional, set top axis visible or not. Default is ``True`` .
    :param rightaxis: (*boolean*) Optional, set right axis visible or not. Default is ``True`` .
    :param xaxistype: (*string*) Optional, set x axis type as 'normal', 'lon', 'lat' or 'time'.
    :param xreverse: (*boolean*) Optional, set x axis reverse or not. Default is ``False`` .
    :param yreverse: (*boolean*) Optional, set yaxis reverse or not. Default is ``False`` .
    
    :returns: The axes.
    
    **Example:**
    
    ::
    
        x = arange(0., 5., 0.2)
        y = x**2
        plot(x, y, label='Series_1', linewidth=2.0)
        title('Overlap plots')
        axes(position=[0.3,0.4,0.2,0.4])
        plot(x, y, 'bo')
        
    .. image:: ../../../../_static/axes.png