Legends in MATLAB

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<div class="--body"> <div class="nav-breadcrumb-container"> <div> <div class="breadcrumb-nav"> <a href="/matlab"> MATLAB<sup>®</sup> </a> > <a href="/matlab/plotly-fundamentals">Fundamentals</a> > <span>Legends</span> </div> </div> <div class="nav-breadcrumb-right"> <div class="--fork"> <a id="forklink" href= "https://github.com/plotly/graphing-library-docs/edit/master/_posts/matlab/md/2021-08-04-legend.md" > <div class="icon"> <svg style="width:20px;height:20px" viewbox="0 0 24 24"> <path fill="#000000" d="M2.6,10.59L8.38,4.8L10.07,6.5C9.83,7.35 10.22,8.28 11,8.73V14.27C10.4,14.61 10,15.26 10,16A2,2 0 0,0 12,18A2,2 0 0,0 14,16C14,15.26 13.6,14.61 13,14.27V9.41L15.07,11.5C15,11.65 15,11.82 15,12A2,2 0 0,0 17,14A2,2 0 0,0 19,12A2,2 0 0,0 17,10C16.82,10 16.65,10 16.5,10.07L13.93,7.5C14.19,6.57 13.71,5.55 12.78,5.16C12.35,5 11.9,4.96 11.5,5.07L9.8,3.38L10.59,2.6C11.37,1.81 12.63,1.81 13.41,2.6L21.4,10.59C22.19,11.37 22.19,12.63 21.4,13.41L13.41,21.4C12.63,22.19 11.37,22.19 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class="mi">3</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">]);</span> <span class="nb">hold</span> <span class="n">on</span> <span class="nb">plot</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="mi">3</span> <span class="mi">4</span> <span class="mi">5</span> <span class="mi">6</span> <span class="mi">7</span> <span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">],[</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">6</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="mi">3</span> <span class="mi">4</span> <span class="mi">7</span> <span class="mi">7</span> <span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">]);</span> <span class="nb">legend</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'blue trace'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">'orange trace'</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="n">fig2plotly</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">fig</span><span class="p">);</span> </code></pre></div> <div 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gd.closest('#notebook-container'); if (notebookContainer) { { x.observe(notebookContainer, { childList: true }); } } // Listen for the clearing of the current output cell var outputEl = gd.closest('.output'); if (outputEl) { { x.observe(outputEl, { childList: true }); } } }) }; }); </script> <h2>Positioning Legends Outside the Plot</h2> <div class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-matlab" data-lang="matlab"><span class="n">fig</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">figure</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="nb">plot</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="mi">3</span> <span class="mi">4</span> <span class="mi">5</span> <span class="mi">6</span> <span class="mi">7</span> <span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">],[</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="mi">5</span> <span class="mi">6</span> <span class="mi">3</span> <span class="mi">3</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">]);</span> <span class="nb">hold</span> <span class="n">on</span> <span class="nb">plot</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="mi">3</span> <span class="mi">4</span> <span class="mi">5</span> <span class="mi">6</span> <span class="mi">7</span> <span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">],[</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">6</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="mi">3</span> <span class="mi">4</span> <span class="mi">3</span> <span class="mi">7</span> <span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">]);</span> <span class="nb">legend</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'blue trace'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">'orange trace'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">'Location'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">'BestOutside'</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="n">fig2plotly</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">fig</span><span class="p">);</span> </code></pre></div> <div id="plot-7249853" class="plotly-graph-div js-plotly-plot"></div> <script type = "text/javascript" > require(["plotly"], function(Plotly) { window.PLOTLYENV = window.PLOTLYENV || {}; if (document.getElementById("plot-7249853" )) { Plotly.newPlot("plot-7249853", {"data": [{"type": "scatter", "xaxis": "x1", "yaxis": "y1", "visible": true, "name": "blue trace", "mode": "lines", "x": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], "y": [1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 3, 2, 5], "line": {"color": "rgb(0,113.985,188.955)", "width": 0.5, "dash": "solid"}, "marker": {"size": 3.6, "line": {"width": 0.5}, "color": "rgb(0,113.985,188.955)"}, "showlegend": true}, {"type": "scatter", "xaxis": "x1", "yaxis": "y1", "visible": true, "name": "orange trace", "mode": "lines", "x": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], "y": [1, 6, 2, 3, 4, 3, 7, 8], "line": {"color": "rgb(216.75,82.875,24.99)", "width": 0.5, "dash": "solid"}, "marker": {"size": 3.6, "line": {"width": 0.5}, "color": 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