How to make axis invisible? But not xlabel and ylabel!

I would like to make axis invisible but not the xlabel and ylabel text

Answer 1

[Akira Agata]

How about overwriting a white axis on the original X- and Y-axis, like:

figure
plot(magic(4));
ax1 = gca;
hold on
ax2 = axes('Position',ax1.Position,...
  'XColor',[1 1 1],...
  'YColor',[1 1 1],...
  'Color','none',...
  'XTick',[],...
  'YTick',[]);

[Mr M.]

set(gca,'ycolor','w') makes the ylabel white for me too!

Answer 2

[Thorsten]

The trick is to create handles to the labels and use these handles to re-set the color of the labels after the color of the axes has been set to white.

 plot(rand(1,10))
 h(1) = xlabel('x');
 h(2) = ylabel('y');
 axesoffwithlabels(h)

Using

function axesoffwithlabels(h)
%AXESOFFWITHLABELS Make axes invisible but not the xlabel and ylabel.
%
%   AXESOFFWITHLABELS(H) makes axes invisible, keeping the x- and ylabel
%   with handle H.
%
%  Sample Usage
%    plot(rand(1,10))
%    h(1) = xlabel('x');
%    h(2) = ylabel('x');
%    axesoffwithlabels(h)
%
%   [e-mail]  2018-08-08
set(gca, 'Xcolor', 'w', 'Ycolor', 'w')
set(h, 'Color', 'k')
% get rid of the white ticks and tick labels, moving the labels closer to
% the axes
set(gca, 'XTick', []);
set(gca, 'YTick', []);
end