How to prevent legend from overlapping with x-axis

Hi,

I am trying to plot a tiledlayout but my legend keeps going over the x axis of my last few graphs. How do I tell Matlab to position the legend below all charts? Thank you.

I will attach the plot and the code I am running below.

figure(1)
t = tiledlayout(5,5,'TileSpacing','Compact','Padding','Compact');
for i=1:23
    nexttile
    area(dates,[vdemg_out(:,i,1),vdemr_out(:,i,1),vdemi_out(:,i,1)],'FaceColor','flat')
    a11 = sprintf('%s',country{i});
    title(a11);
    xtickangle(45)
    ylim([0 1]);
    xlim([1980 max(dates)]);
    ax = gca;
    set(ax, 'XTick', 1980:10:2015,'TickDir','out')
    grid on
end
lgn = legend({'Global','Regional','Country-specific'},'Location','bestoutside');
set(lgn,'Position',[2.52 0.0 5 0.4]*0.1,'NumColumns',3);

[millercommamatt]

Does lgd.Layout.Tile = 'east'; help?

Answer 1

[Voss]

% making up some data:
dates = [1980 2000 2020];
vdemg_out = rand(3,23);
vdemr_out = rand(3,23);
vdemi_out = rand(3,23);
country = num2cell('A':'W');

figure(1)
t = tiledlayout(5,5,'TileSpacing','Compact','Padding','Compact');
for i=1:23
    nexttile
    area(dates,[vdemg_out(:,i,1),vdemr_out(:,i,1),vdemi_out(:,i,1)],'FaceColor','flat')
    a11 = sprintf('%s',country{i});
    title(a11);
    xtickangle(45)
    ylim([0 1]);
    xlim([1980 max(dates)]);
    ax = gca;
    set(ax, 'XTick', 1980:10:2015,'TickDir','out')
    grid on
end
lgn = legend({'Global','Regional','Country-specific'},'NumColumns',3);
lgn.Layout.Tile = 'south';

[Hasan Isomitdinov]

Thank you very much!

[Voss]

You're welcome!