How to make all but one axis visible on plot

I want to make my plot with both Y axes visible, the bottom X axes visibile, but have the top X-axis invisible. I know you can set the 'XColor' to 'none' and both the top and bottom axes will become invisible. How do I make it so everything but the top axes is visible? Included below is what I would like to achieve. I'm doing this in a subplotting routine so I'm hoping to avoid anything that is hardcoded such as a white rectangle positioned to hide the top axis. Thanks!

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

Another simple way is to use yyaxis to create two y axes but you'll ignore the right-side axes.

Also see this answer to turn off the right axis while keeping visible the other 3 axes.

clf
ax = axes;
yyaxis(ax,'right')
ax.YTickLabels = '';
yyaxis(ax,'left') %   * see footnote [1]
linkprop([ax.XAxis; ax.YAxis],'color'); % set axes colors to match
linkprop([ax.YAxis(1), ax.YAxis(2)],{'Limits','TickValues'});  % * see footnote [2]
box(ax,'off')  % see footnote [3]

[1] It's important the you run yyaxis(ax,'left') after making changes to the right-side so that your plotting is all assigned to the left axes.

[2] This line links the y limits and ticks for the 2 y axes; otherwise you could remove the tick on the right using ax.YTick = [];

[3] You may need to call this line again after plotting or hold your axes using hold(ax,'on')

[Eileen Lukens]

Thank you! That did the trick!