Missing gridlines

[paulvonhippel]

I sometimes find that the top or bottom gridline is missing from a Stata graph. I'm attaching an example created with graph combine. All four of the component graphs were created by running twoway connected..., ylabel(-4(1)1).... Yet only the lower right graph has gridlines at every y value from -1 to 4. The upper graphs are missing the top gridline at y=4, and the lower left graph is missing the bottom gridline at y=-1.

What do you think might be going on?

[Scott Merryman]

Try adding gmax and gmin to the ylabel option:

ylabel(-4(1)1, gmax gmin)

[paulvonhippel]

Thanks, that worked! But why isn't this the default behavior?

[William Lisowski]

Oddly enough, the question of missing gridlines arose again the day after your initial post. In that topic, default behavior is discussed at greater length.

https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...es-in-boxplots