How to turn off "matching" highlighting in VS Code?

Question

I don't want Visual Studio Code to highlight matching brackets, all occurrences of the same variable, etc. I find it very distracting. However, I can find no way to disable this feature.

The only highlight options I seem to be able to change are "editor.selectionHighlight" and "editor.renderLineHighlight", and neither work.

Is it possible to disable "matching highlighting"? Or maybe to edit my theme, so that the highlight color and highlight border are the same as the background color?

Answer 1

There are different types of highlighting:

1. Syntax highlighting (place cursor inside variable)

"editor.occurrencesHighlight": false 

2. Selection highlighting (similar chunks in document)

"editor.selectionHighlight": false 

3. Matching brackets highlighting

"editor.matchBrackets": false 

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There's a second way - make them less obtrusive (or completely transparent):

"workbench.colorCustomizations": {     "editor.selectionHighlightBackground": "#0000", // similar selection     "editor.selectionHighlightBorder": "#0000",      "editor.wordHighlightStrongBackground": "#0000", // syntax variable assignment     "editor.wordHighlightStrongBorder": "#0000",      "editor.wordHighlightBackground": "#0000", // syntax variable     "editor.wordHighlightBorder": "#0000",      "editorBracketMatch.border": "#0000",// brackets     "editorBracketMatch.background": "#0000", } 

Answer 2

Try this one "editor.matchBrackets": false in your Preferences - User/Workspace setting

Answer 3

Try going to Preferences-> User Settings
In the settings.json to the right add:

"editor.selectionHighlight": false

Answer 4

"Occurrences Highlight" is the setting you are looking for.