diff --git a/galleries/examples/text_labels_and_annotations/demo_text_path.py b/galleries/examples/text_labels_and_annotations/demo_text_path.py
index 945ff7067ba0..427a4fd69a9f 100644
--- a/galleries/examples/text_labels_and_annotations/demo_text_path.py
+++ b/galleries/examples/text_labels_and_annotations/demo_text_path.py
@@ -113,11 +113,7 @@ def draw(self, renderer=None):
         offsetbox.add_artist(text_patch)
 
         # place the anchored offset box using AnnotationBbox
-        ab = AnnotationBbox(offsetbox, (xpos, 0.5),
-                            xycoords='data',
-                            boxcoords="offset points",
-                            box_alignment=(0.5, 0.5),
-                            )
+        ab = AnnotationBbox(offsetbox, (xpos, 0.5), box_alignment=(0.5, 0.5))
 
         ax2.add_artist(ab)
 
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/offsetbox.py b/lib/matplotlib/offsetbox.py
index c2c0e54caca0..6b3ed4f42557 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/offsetbox.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/offsetbox.py
@@ -1224,9 +1224,7 @@ def __str__(self):
         return f"AnnotationBbox({self.xy[0]:g},{self.xy[1]:g})"
 
     @_docstring.dedent_interpd
-    def __init__(self, offsetbox, xy, xybox=None, *,
-                 xycoords='data',
-                 boxcoords=None,
+    def __init__(self, offsetbox, xy, xybox=None, xycoords='data', boxcoords=None, *,
                  frameon=True, pad=0.4,  # FancyBboxPatch boxstyle.
                  annotation_clip=None,
                  box_alignment=(0.5, 0.5),
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/offsetbox.pyi b/lib/matplotlib/offsetbox.pyi
index 3a4c23e9124b..a6027c3a2e8c 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/offsetbox.pyi
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/offsetbox.pyi
@@ -240,7 +240,6 @@ class AnnotationBbox(martist.Artist, mtext._AnnotationBase):
         offsetbox: OffsetBox,
         xy: tuple[float, float],
         xybox: tuple[float, float] | None = ...,
-        *,
         xycoords: str
         | tuple[str, str]
         | martist.Artist
@@ -252,6 +251,7 @@ class AnnotationBbox(martist.Artist, mtext._AnnotationBase):
         | Transform
         | Callable[[RendererBase], Bbox | Transform]
         | None = ...,
+        *,
         frameon: bool = ...,
         pad: float = ...,
         annotation_clip: bool | None = ...,