I would like axis off except xlabel, but this is not working, why?

This is not working for me: axis off; xlabel('something');

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

set(gca,'xtick',[],'ytick',[],'title',[],'ylabel',[]),

[Mr M.]

This is not working for me: "invalid object handle" Maybe, the problem is that I am in a subfigure. ?

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Try this

h=findobj(gcf,'type','axes')
for k=1:numel(h)
  set(h(k),'xtick',[],'ytick',[],'title',[],'ylabel',[]),
end

Answer 2

[Mike Garrity]

The axis('off') command turns off the visibility of all of the decorations of the axes. You need to turn the one you want back on:

ax = gca
axis(ax,'off')
xlabel(ax,'something')
ax.XLabel.Visible = 'on'

[Mr M.]

Within a subplot I have the following commands: axis off; axis image; xlabel('something'); But after that ax = gca; ax.XLabel.Visible = 'on'; is not working for me!

[Mr M.]

It is not possible, what you have written. The error message is: "Warning: Struct field assignment overwrites a value with class "double". See MATLAB R14SP2 Release Notes, Assigning Nonstructure Variables As Structures Displays Warning, for details. > In myprog at 68

ax =

    XLabel: [1x1 struct]"

[Mike Garrity]

Sorry, the . notation was introduced in R2014b. It sounds like you're running an earlier version. Something like this should work in both versions:

ax = gca
axis(ax,'off')
xlabel(ax,'something')
set(get(ax,'XLabel'),'Visible','on')

I generally use the dot notation because it's so much easier to read.