LEGENDTITLE

Add a title string inside a legend.

Description

LEGENDTITLE adds a title inside the legend axes.
LEGENDTITLE(LEGH,TITLESTR) adds the title TITLESTR to the legend LEGH
LEGENDTITLE(TITLESTR) adds the title to the current legend in the current axes.
LEGENDTITLE(...,Param,Val) sets the specified properties for the text object.
H = LEGENDTITLE(...) returns the handle for the text object used to create the title string.

By default, the legend title uses the same font as the legend, but with a bold font weight.

Example:

plot(rand(10,5))
legh = legend('Random 1','Random 2','Random 3','Random 4','Random 5');
legendtitle(legh,'Random Data')

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7 (R14)

[Fahad Al Mahmood]

Excellent function! Very easy to use ... thank you!

[Jos x]

Redundant! This does the job already:
>> h = legend(...) ;
>> set(get(h,'title'),'String','Legend Title')

[Andreas Hartmann]

Nice function, and not redundant, it adds the title _inside_ the legend box

[Chris Rodgers]

Although this looks nice when first applied to a plot, it gets messed up as soon as I resize the plot... :-( This is more important than it might initially seem, since I use the exportfig.m tools to export / print my figures and this always involves a resize.

[Holger Krause]

Unfortunately this nice function doesn't work with R14.

[Michel Garcia]

didn't work!

[valik pol]

Didn't work: error in line 68: Function 'mrdivide' is not defined for values of class 'cell'.
I personally liked Jos' solution better, but this is supposed to put the title INSIDE the legend! And anyway, thanks for bringing up the issue! ;-)

[Romario Do Nacimento]

The function doesn't work in Matlab 14!!
Another option please!

[Thierry Dalon]

With R2008a it works perfectly.
It puts the title inside the box legend in bold.
(Default title property of legend put a title outside of the legend box).

[David DeVilbiss]

The function worked fine but will not allow the legend to be placed outside the axes.

[Ben Witvliet]

Just what I needed. Works fine in R2009a (64-bit version).

[Cristian]

It does not work properly if you save the image as .eps.

[Kaare]

saving it to jpg, png or pdf messes it up, haven't tried any other formats.