%% Display Grid Lines in Single Direction
% This example shows how to display grid lines in a single direction by setting axes properties. The grid on command sets the XGrid, YGrid, and ZGrid axes properties. The grid minor command sets the XMinorGrid, YMinorGrid, and ZMinorGrid properties. Control the display of the grid lines for each individual axes by setting these axes properties directly.
% Display the grid lines in the x-direction, but not in the y-direction by setting the XGrid axes property to 'on' and the YGrid axes property to 'off'. Starting in R2014b, you can use dot notation to set properties. If you are using an earlier release, use the set function instead.

x = -10:10;
y = x.^2;
plot(x,y)

ax = gca;
ax.XGrid = 'on';
ax.YGrid = 'off';

%
% Display the minor grid lines in the x-direction, but not in the y-direction by setting the XGridMinor axes property to 'on' and the YGridMinor axes property to 'off'.

ax.XMinorGrid = 'on';
ax.YMinorGrid = 'off';

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