title: In Flot, is it possible to eliminate or hide grid ticks without eliminating the corresponding label?
body: <p>The <a href="http://flot.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/API.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Flot API documentation</a> describes the library's extensive hooks for customizing the axes of a graph. You can set the number of ticks, their color, etc. separately for each axis. However, I can not figure out how to prevent Flot from drawing the vertical grid lines without also removing the x-axis labels. I've tried changing the tickColor, ticks, and tickSize options with no success.</p>
  
  <p>I want to create beautiful, Tufte-compatible graphs such as these:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.robgoodlatte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/tufte_mint.gif" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><a href="http://www.robgoodlatte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/tufte_mint.gif" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.robgoodlatte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/tufte_mint.gif</a></a>
  <a href="http://www.argmax.com/mt_blog/archive/RealGDP_graph.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><a href="http://www.argmax.com/mt_blog/archive/RealGDP_graph.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.argmax.com/mt_blog/archive/RealGDP_graph.jpg</a></a></p>
  
  <p>I find the vertical ticks on my graphs to be chart junk. I am working with a time series that I am displaying as vertical bars so the vertical ticks often cut through the bars in a way that is visually noisy.</p>