Vscode: Option to disable current line highlight

[ThinnerSpinner]

Whenever I place my cursor on a new line, VScode puts a border around it. Is there any way to shut the line bordering down?

[alexdima]

@ThinnerSpinner That is the current line highlight to help you find your cursor easily... Perhaps try another theme? Here's how it looks in Monokai:

We don't have any option to turn it off completely.

[mooflu]

I had a quick look. The css for current-line includes both background and a border. tmTheme files have control over the background color via lineHighlight. There appears to be no way to control the border width or color.

Base css is in src/vs/editor/browser/widget/media/editor.css

Monokai which is based on vs-dark:

Monokai-tmTheme .current-line {
    background-color: rgba(62, 61, 50, 1);
}
.monaco-editor.vs-dark .current-line {
    background: none;
    border: 2px solid #282828;
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

Border might be important for high-contrast based themes, but maybe it can be set to none for the others.

[alexdima]

fyi @aeschli The border should only be shown in vs light / dark themes, not in other themes.

[aeschli]

@alexandrudima The high contrast theme no longer has a selection border.
This is how it looked in 0.10.10:

[aeschli]

It's fine, it just doesn't show in the preview mode in the theme picker. It's because the color css only shows on focus.

[SteveTrewick]

Not sure why this is closed, there is still no option to disable line highlighting. Came to open an issue for this exact thing.

[ghost]

in settings: "editor.renderLineHighlight": "none", or "editor.renderLineHighlight": "gutter"

[allexon]

Hello, I'm using vscode a little while, really cool, now if anyone can help me with a situation. The visual code put some white borders in markup tags like [(<{.... these edges are annoying these edges, does anyone know how I do to remove them, see the image as an example

[ghost]

@allexon in settings:

"editor.matchBrackets": false

[allexon]

Obrigado, eu já consegui, antes eu tinha tentado, a opção: "editor.matchBrackets": false, mas nesta opção o VSCODE não reconhece o nome machBrackets, agora este nome ajudou quando eu em outra dica localizar o arquivo: workbench.main.css, dentro deste arquivo eu localizei o nome math brackets, onde tinha border eu coloquei none, e funcionou!!!

[alexdima]

@allexon The setting editor.matchBrackets will be available in the next VS Code stable release (due in ~ 1 week) or is already available today on the insiders channel.

[n370]

You might be also interested in "editor.renderLineHighlight": "none".

[unjx]

Adding to what @noformnocontent and @n370 have stated, there are a few more options on how you can render the line highlight.

From settings.json:

// Controls how the editor should render the current line highlight, 
// possibilities are 'none', 'gutter', 'line', and 'all'.
  "editor.renderLineHighlight": "gutter",

[scunliffe]

The line renders (on my install) as an ugly 2px border, what is the setting to adjust the border width and style? e.g. I'd love a very pale light blue background, with a slightly darker dotted/dashed 1px border. The width is the most critical part as this should be a very subtle visual clue, not 2px wide.