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Description
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Bug summary
Colorbars have their own minorticks_on/off methods to address the issue of minorticks extending into the "extend" regions (see #11584).
Since colorbar axes are instances of normal axes, setting rcParams['y/xtick.minor.visible'] = True
results in minorticks being drawn on the colorbar axes using the axes methods (which don't take into account the "extend" regions).
Code for reproduction
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
# Making yticks longer in length to highlight the issue
plt.rcParams['ytick.major.size'] = 10
plt.rcParams['ytick.minor.size'] = 4
plt.rcParams['ytick.minor.visible'] = True
# Similar issue with plt.rcParams['xtick.minor.visible'] = True and horizontal colorbar
np.random.seed(seed=12345)
x = np.random.randn(20, 20)
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(4, 3), constrained_layout=True)
im = ax.pcolormesh(x)
cbar = fig.colorbar(im, extend='both', orientation='vertical')
# Similar issue with plt.rcParams['xtick.minor.visible'] = True and horizontal colorbar
fig.savefig('cbar_minorticks_issue.png')Actual outcome
Expected outcome
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