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Reputation: 11

How to I stop this Netbeans IDE highlighting?

I am currently using Netbeans IDE 7.4 to write some basic HTML code. Whenever I type a tag, it immediately highlights it, making it next to impossible to read until I click somewhere else. This is incredibly annoying. I have looked at all previous solutions, but for some reason they only work with Java and not HTML. Does anybody know how to fix this?

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 2205

Answers (4)

Roy Alilin
Roy Alilin

Reputation: 145

In Netbeans 12.5, this is configurable in Tools|Options|Editor tab|Highlighting tab under Editor tab

Upvotes: 1

Schumschy
Schumschy

Reputation: 1

Try to change profile. That works for me.

Tools > Options > Fonts & Colors > profile.

Hope it will help.

Upvotes: 0

jdacjohn
jdacjohn

Reputation: 46

After ongoing bouts of frustration with the NetBeans highlighting, I finally figured out this was not so much of an issue of highlighting being turned on or off, but more an issue of how the highlighting is being rendered.

Turning highlighting off completely (as suggested above) has never been fully successful in my case in either NetBeans 8.x or 9.0 (I'm currently using 9.0), and the highlighting can seriously become so annoying in that it's too difficult to read the highlighted text, that it becomes a distraction and negatively impacts productivity.

Having determined that this is a question of rendering verses IDE functionality, the original answer is on target as far as modifying the Mark Occurrences styling in:

Tools > Options > Fonts & Colors > Syntax -> Mark Occurrences.

However, since I work in multiple projects of multiple types, I selected 'All Languages' in the drop-down, set the foreground and background colors to 'Inherited' (getting rid of the sickly yellow background (I'm using the Sublime Theme) and added Bold and Italic styling to the inherited font setting.

Now, no matter the project or the language, highlighting is still working as intended, but it's no longer an annoyance.

Hope this helps for others who have been likewise frustrated by this feature of NetBeans! It was getting to the point of almost driving me to another IDE.

Upvotes: 2

Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey

Reputation: 180798

The mark-occurrences color can be modified in Options->Fonts & Colors -> Syntax, language: Java, Category: Mark Occurrences. To turn it off completely go to Options->Java code -> Mark Occurrences and disable the first checkbox.

http://netbeans-org.1045718.n5.nabble.com/Turn-off-or-change-the-automatic-highlight-of-the-mark-occurrence-feature-td2949743.html

Upvotes: 0

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