diff --git a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
index d6a6b5e3..5b853e28 100644
--- a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
+++ b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ function (pgfx_plot::PGFPlotsXPlot)(plt::Plot{PGFPlotsXBackend})
                 "show background rectangle" => nothing,
             )
         end
+        push!(the_plot.options, "tight background" => nothing)
 
         for sp in plt.subplots
             bb2 = bbox(sp)