How to set position of the legend outside the axes?

Hi all,

I create sample code for set legend position.

f = figure;
p = uipanel('Title','Panel','FontSize',12,...
             'BackgroundColor','white',...
             'Position',[.1 .1 .67 .8]);

% Construct a figure with subplots and data
subplot(2,1,1, 'Parent', p);
line1 = histogram(rand(1,1000));
title('Axes 1');
subplot(2,1,2, 'Parent', p);
line2 = histogram(rand(1,1000));
title('Axes 2');

% Construct a Legend with the data from the sub-plots
hL = legend([line1,line2],{'Data Axes 1','Data Axes 2'});
%set(hL,'location', 'bestoutside');

Here is result:

But, I want to move legend to outside of axes such as:

Do anyone know? Please help me.

Thank you so much

Answer 1

[Jonas]

add a Name-Value pair to your legend command, e.g.

legend('Location','eastoutside')

[galaxy]

@Jonas

Thank you for your anwser.

But, when use ['Location','eastoutside'], legend is outside of plot, but it does not outside of axes.

[Jonas]

use a tiledlayout instead of subplot, then the two axes are aligned and have same width

[Jonas]

tiledlayout(2,1); nexttile; plot(rand(3)); legend('Location','eastoutside'); nexttile; plot(rand(5))

[galaxy]

@Jonas

I checked. legend still inside axes.

How you know to move legend to outside axes ?. Example for outside panel .

[Jonas]

look again at my previois comment, there you can see that the kegend is not inside the axis area. what did you expect?

[galaxy]

@Jonas

sorry, I think in your code, legend only outside of plot area.

I changed some lines. So can you move legend same following figure.

Thank you so much

f = figure;
p = uipanel(f, 'Position',[.1 .1 .8 .8], 'Title','Panel 1');
p1 = uipanel('Parent', p, 'Position',[.1 .1 .6 .6], 'Title','Panel 2');
t = tiledlayout(p1,1,1);
nexttile(t); 
plot(rand(3)); 
h = legend('Location','northeastoutside');