Placing ticks in the middle of each grid in matlab

Question

I am trying to create a figure with axes on matlab. But I want the ticks on the y-axis to be in the middle of each grid. How do I do that? An example is like this:

Answer 1

As a workaround, you could turn on both major and minor gridlines, but set the major ones to the back color like this:

ax = axes;
grid(ax,'on');
grid(ax,'Minor');
set(ax,'GridColor',get(ax,'Color'))
set(ax,'MinorGridLineStyle','-')
set(ax,'TickLength',[0;0]);

Which gives: