How to align the figure name to the left ?

Hi,

How can I align the figure name or title to the left side ?

Thanks in advance

[Matt Fig]

Do you mean a plot title? A figure is the window that the plot is in...

[aurora]

No I mean the figure name not the plot title

[Matt Fig]

The figure name is already to the left by default, at least it is on my system. What OS are you using?

[aurora]

because your system language is english or latin but mine is arabic , if there isn't another way to make it left I'll change my system language.

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

aurora, how did you creat this name?

[aurora]

figH=figure();
set(figH,'name','mytitle','NumberTitle','off');

Answer 1

[Matt Fig]

About the only thing I can think of is to buffer with spaces, but then resizing the figure wouldn't preserve this.

set(gcf,'name','                  Myfig')

[aurora]

Thank u @Matt Fig it's a good idea, actually it worked fine with me , but if someone else operate my file on his system then it'll appear right to him . I thought I'll find a figure property doing that , I'll better change my system language . thanks

[Lucien Robinault]

It look like you could try to use html to do this as explained here : https://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/aligning-uicontrol-contents

Answer 2

[Adam Danz]

Starting in MATLAB R2020b, control the horizontal alignment of title and subtitle using the axis properties TitleHorizontalAlignment which can be set to center (default), left, or right.

Similarly, control the alignment of axis labels using the LabelHorizontalAlignment which is a property on the axis ruler.

For demos, see this Community Highlight.

(This does not affect the position of the figure name which is the original question by the OP).

tiledlayout(1,3)
ax1 = nexttile(); 
title('Left')
ax1.TitleHorizontalAlignment = 'left'; 
box on
axis square
grid on

ax2 = nexttile(); 
title('Center')
ax2.TitleHorizontalAlignment = 'center'; 
box on
axis square
grid on

ax3 = nexttile(); 
title('Right')
ax3.TitleHorizontalAlignment = 'right'; 
box on
axis square
grid on

Answer 3

[Dimitrios Patikas]

There is no way I know for adjusting the title of the figure.

The title of each graph can be adjucted by calculating the limits of the axes. For example:

subplot(3,1,1)
plot([1:pi/10:10], sin(1:pi/10:10))
LimitsX = xlim; LimitsY = ylim;
title('Left', 'HorizontalAlignment', 'left', 'position', [LimitsX(1), LimitsY(2)]);

subplot(3,1,2)
plot([1:pi/10:10], cos(1:pi/10:10))
LimitsX = xlim; LimitsY = ylim;
title('Center (default)');

subplot(3,1,3)
plot([3:pi/10:12], sin(3:pi/10:12))
LimitsX = xlim; LimitsY = ylim;
title('Right', 'HorizontAlalignment', 'right', 'position', [LimitsX(2), LimitsY(2)]);

[O.Hubert]

Although this answer does not address the issue of the OP (which was to change the location of the figure name and not the title of the plot, i.e. having "Figure 1" left-aligned), this answer addresses the issue of setting the title plot aligned with the plot area, which may be the reason why users land on this thread.

It is a nice solution which does not require any ad-hoc setting of the location.

Answer 4

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

 title('yourtitle','position',[1 1])

[aurora]

Thank you Azzi, but it didn't work .. I want the figure name not the plot title so the property is 'name' and it works with me but the position property doesn't work .

figH=figure();
set(figH,'name','mytitle','NumberTitle','off','position',[1 1] );

the following error : Value must be a 4 element vector

so I added 2 additional vectors to the 'position' property , no error occured but the name alignment still to the right .

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Aurore why are you changing the location of the name?

[aurora]

what do you mean ? if you mean why I want to change the name to the left is because I want my project interface figure to be in a good appearance

Answer 5

[Mohamed Marei]

This is long overdue but I figured someone else might heed to do it:

set(title1,'Position',[4.98848 0.24 1.00011]) %%%Default setting
set(title1,'Position',[4.98848 0.34 1.00011]) %%%Shifts upward by 0.1 units
set(title1,'Position',[5.98848 0.34 0.00011]) %%%Shifts to the left by 1 unit

[Jonathan Broyles]

When I tried it this way, but when I pan the plot(change xlim or ylim) the title moves with it, rather than staying stationary as you would expect a title to do. R2017a

Answer 6

[Roger Parkyn]

Or just use a text label instead.

text(0.02, 1.02, 'Some Title String', 'Units', 'normalized', 'VerticalAlignment','Bottom', 'FontWeight','bold');

Answer 7

[Sara]

You can change the psition based on your need by chnaging the

[0.5 1200 1.1]);

I used this in one of my codes.

title ('a','FontSize',13,'position',[0.5 1200 1.1]);        
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