link axes of specific subplots

I have a subplot of size (8,1). I want to link the x-axis of the first two subplots with eachother (so they'll stay the same when zooming), and the 3rd-8th axes of eachother.

Could you help me?

Answer 1

[Luna]

Hi Lieke,

Try this below:

ax1 = subplot(8,1,1);
% plot something
ax2 = subplot(8,1,2);
% plot something
ax8 = subplot(8,1,8);
% plot something

linkaxes([ax1,ax2],'x');
linkaxes([ax3,ax8],'x'); % where ax1 ... ax8 are your axis handles.

[Lieke Numan]

Thanks a lot!

[Luna]

Your welcome :)

[Stephen Cowen]

Typically, this works well, until it doesn't. I am getting intermittent crashes when I use linkaxes and zoom or pan in one axis. 9.13.0.2105380 (R2022b) Update 2