How to plot legend above graph but not outside figure

I have a figure in a subplot and i want to put its legend above the graph but not outside the border. I have attatched an image of where i want the legend to be and preferably it should be oriented horizontally.

leg = legend('Healthy','Infected','Sick','Recovered');

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

Use the location name-value pair. See here.

leg = legend('Healthy','Infected','Sick','Recovered','Location','northeast');

[Zayd Islam]

Hi this isn't what i was looking for i want my legend to look like the image attatched thank you

[Cris LaPierre]

So to clarify, the legend in Capture.PNG is NOT what you want? You can still use the linked page to explore the available properties. For example, to have it not outside the border, you could do this.

plot(1:10,rand(10,4))
legend('Healthy','Infected','Sick','Recovered',...
    'Location','north',...
    'Orientation','horizontal')

To have it look more like Capture2.PNG, you could do this.

figure
plot(1:10,rand(10,4))
box off
legend('Healthy','Infected','Sick','Recovered',...
    'Location','northoutside',...
    'Orientation','horizontal')
legend('boxoff');