From 162dab5b065fb795445cbcb643e85a7878193f8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Liam Connors <liam@plot.ly>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 11:45:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update axes.md

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 doc/python/axes.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/python/axes.md b/doc/python/axes.md
index 86c7d8ed4e2..f971c2e4e8c 100644
--- a/doc/python/axes.md
+++ b/doc/python/axes.md
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ jupyter:
     text_representation:
       extension: .md
       format_name: markdown
-      format_version: '1.2'
-      jupytext_version: 1.4.2
+      format_version: '1.3'
+      jupytext_version: 1.13.7
   kernelspec:
-    display_name: Python 3
+    display_name: Python 3 (ipykernel)
     language: python
     name: python3
   language_info:
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jupyter:
     name: python
     nbconvert_exporter: python
     pygments_lexer: ipython3
-    version: 3.7.7
+    version: 3.9.0
   plotly:
     description: How to adjust axes properties in Python - axes titles, styling and
       coloring axes and grid lines, ticks, tick labels and more.
@@ -291,6 +291,20 @@ fig.update_yaxes(ticks="outside", tickwidth=2, tickcolor='crimson', ticklen=10,
 fig.show()
 ```
 
+##### Step for tick labels
+
+You can set a step for tick labels with `ticklabelstep`. In this example, we hide labels between every `2` ticks on the y axes. Similarly, this can be used with `fig.update_xaxes` for x axes: `fig.update_xaxes(ticklabelstep=2)`.
+
+```python
+import plotly.express as px
+df = px.data.iris()
+
+fig = px.scatter(df, x="sepal_width", y="sepal_length", facet_col="species")
+fig.update_yaxes(ticklabelstep=2)
+
+fig.show()
+```
+
 ##### Toggling axis labels
 
 The axis tick mark labels can be disabled by setting the `showticklabels` axis property to `False`.