Common Y label for multiple subplots in MATLAB!!!

Can anyone please help, how to put common y label for multiple subplots in MATLAB figures?

Answer 1

[KSSV]

figure;
h1=subplot(2,1,1);
h2=subplot(2,1,2);
p1=get(h1,'position');
p2=get(h2,'position');
height=p1(2)+p1(4)-p2(2);
h3=axes('position',[p2(1) p2(2) p2(3) height],'visible','off');

h_label=ylabel('test','visible','on');

[kader]

Thanks for your kind cooperation

[Vasishta Kanthi]

A very elegant solution!!! Awesome!!! Highly Recommended!!

[Eric Sargent]

As of R2019b you can used tiledlayout and add shared labels.

t = tiledlayout(2,2);
t.YLabel.String = 'My y-Axis Label';

Alternatively, pass the TiledChartLayout object to the ylabel function.

t = tiledlayout(2,2);
ylabel(t,'My y-Axis Label');

[Victoria Dutch]

How would you make this work when using yyaxis? Both my y-labels are showing up on top of each other on the left, and I need one on the left and one on the right, but both vertically centered?

Answer 2

[He Zhu Zhu]

If you used common Y label for multiple subplots, you might need to link the axes. The simplest way to do this is linkaxes function. Linked axes will behave synchronously when using pan or zoom tools.

ax1 = subplot(1, 2, 1);
ax2 = subplot(1, 2, 2);
linkaxes([ax1, ax2], 'y');