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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"zorder is not respected by all parts of `errorbar` ","articleBody":"This was found by via a SO question  (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14003572/how-to-force-errorbars-to-render-last-with-matplotlib)\n\nIt looks like the root cause of this issue is that LineCollections do not take zorder as a parameter.\n\nThe hacky work around is to put negative zorder on the lines you want to be below the error bars.\n\n```\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\nfig = plt.figure()\nax = plt.gca()\n[ax.plot(rand(50),color='0.75') for j in range(122)];\nax.errorbar(range(50),rand(50),yerr=.3*rand(50))\nplt.draw()\n```\n\n![eb_wrong](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/199813/28725/b36a15da-4c8a-11e2-805c-d1c911a9c71f.png)\n\n```\nfig = plt.figure()\nax = plt.gca()\n[ax.plot(rand(50),color='0.75',zorder=-32) for j in range(122)];\nax.errorbar(range(50),rand(50),yerr=.3*rand(50))\nplt.draw()\n```\n\n![eb_hack](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/199813/28726/be8e765e-4c8a-11e2-8c22-89a6ebc28c3b.png)\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/tacaswell","@type":"Person","name":"tacaswell"},"datePublished":"2012-12-22T23:16:49.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":10},"url":"https://github.com/1622/matplotlib/issues/1622"}