How do i make ticks invisible

I've made a figure with plot(x,y);
Now I'd like only the ticks attached to the ticks on the y-axis to be invisible but not the numbers. Does anyone have such ideas please!!

 Accepted Answer

You can’t turn the ticks on individual axes on or off, only all of them on or off. Ths solution is to turn all of them off and then add them selectively on the x-axis by plotting them with this:
plot( ... )
hold on
set(gca, 'TickLength',[0 0])
xt = get(gca, 'XTick');
yxt = diff(ylim)
plot([xt; xt], [ones(1,length(xt)); zeros(1,length(xt))]*yxt/100,'k')
hold off
I tested this and it works. If you have any trouble with it in your application, post your code and we’ll get it to work there as well.

More Answers (1)

set(gca,'YTickLabel',[])

2 Comments

Well, it makes invisible both tick and number. I mean just the tick. Thanks for response
Why? What good are numbers without the tick mark? It's less precise.

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