Visual Studio Code remove tag highlight

Question

I want to remove the highlighting of a tag when my cursor is on it. For example Visual Studio Code shows a paragraph tag like this: [<]p[>] where I want it to show like this <p>. See image for an example.

Example image

Answer 1

In your settings.json put:

// Highlight matching brackets when one of them is selected.

"editor.matchBrackets": false,

That will stop the behavior you see, but will do it for all supported languages (so also javascript for example). You can change that setting for only html by :

"[html]": {
   "editor.matchBrackets": false
}

Answer 2

It appears that this has changed since the other answers were posted:

Value is not accepted. Valid values: "always", "near", "never".(1)

Use this instead:

"editor.matchBrackets": "never"