# yaxis-label attribute

Type: | various
Inherited: | no
Used By: | Graph elements except piegraph
Default: | No default value, in Black 10pt Helvetica
See: | align color font-family font-size font-style font-weight vertical-align xaxis-label y yaxis

The `yaxis-label` family of attributes set the style and content of the label to print on the y axis.
Set the `yaxis-label` attribute to the label you want displayed on the y axis of the graph.
The following options can also be set to determine how to display this label.
`yaxis-label-rotate` sets the rotation of the text, in degrees clockwise from 12 o'clock.
`yaxis-label-color` sets the color of the label text
`yaxis-label-font-family` sets the font to use to display the label text, in the same way as font-family
`yaxis-label-font-style` sets the font style to use, in the same way as font-style
`yaxis-label-font-weight` sets the font weight to use, in the same way as font-weight
`yaxis-label-font-size` sets the size of the font to use, in the same way as font-size
`yaxis-label-align` and `yaxis-label-valign` set the alignment of the text. Generally these are set by the system to an appropriate value, but can be set separately in the same way as the align or vertical-align attributes.

    bargraph { yaxis-label:"Number of Units"; yaxis-label-font-style:italic; }