# How to remove Tikz pgfplot ticks from the top, bottom and right borders?

I am creating a histogram, which I've managed to do with the following code:

\begin{tikzpicture}
\centering
\begin{axis}[
ymin=0, ymax=50,
minor y tick num = 2,
axis background/.style={fill=gray!5},
area style,
xticklabel=\pgfkeys{/pgf/number format/.cd,fixed,precision=1,zerofill}\pgfmathprintnumber{\tick}x,
yticklabel=\pgfkeys{/pgf/number format/.cd,fixed,precision=0,zerofill}\pgfmathprintnumber{\tick}\%,
xlabel={EV/EBIT},
ylabel={Frequency}],
]
\addplot+ [ybar interval,mark=no, fill={rgb:red,0;green,47;blue,135},draw=gray!5] plot coordinates { (0, 0) (5, 7.6) (10, 40.1) (15, 30.5) (20, 10.7) (25, 4.1) (30, 2.4) (35, 1.4) (40, 1.0) (45, 0.7) (50, 0.4)};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}


which gives:

But what annoys my eyes, are the ticks on the bottom x-axis, top border and right border. Is there any way to change this?

To have the yticks only on the left, add ytick pos=left,, see section 4.15.2 Tick Alignment: Positions and Shifts of the pgfplots manual for more details. To remove the xticks altogether, just add xtick style={draw=none}.

\documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.16}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[xtick style={draw=none},ytick pos=left,
ymin=0, ymax=8000,
minor y tick num = 2,
axis background/.style={fill=gray!5},
area style,
]
\addplot+ [ybar interval,mark=no, fill={rgb:red,0;green,47;blue,135},draw=gray!5] plot coordinates { (0, 32) (5, 1228) (10, 6658) (15, 5060) (20, 1786) (25, 684) (30, 404) (35, 228) (40, 165) (45, 119) (50, 72)};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}


• Hi! The ticks were properly removed for the top and right, but not for the bottom. I looked in the manual and tried to implement: xtick pos=bottom, but that didn't solve the issue. – Philip Apr 19 '19 at 15:06
• @Philip Yes, sorry, didn't read the question carefully enough. Fixed it (I hope). – user121799 Apr 19 '19 at 15:11
• Thank you Marmot, that solved my issue! :) – Philip Apr 19 '19 at 15:21