How to turn of this surrounding highlight between quotes | brackets | methods definition | etc?

[pbragamiranda]

I'm encountering an issue with highlights appearing between every word within strings, parentheses, brackets, and similar elements in my editor. Like so:

These highlights are visually distracting for me, and I'd like to know how to disable or remove them entirely. I assume this could be related to syntax highlighting or a specific editor feature.

Could someone guide me on how to disable this? I've read through the documentation but couldn't find it.

Thank you in advance!

[mgyarmathy]

It took a bit of digging for me to find it, but I've found setting editor.document_highlight.bracket_background to a transparent color hides the highlights. If you don't want to fully hide it, you can bump the alpha transparency (last two digits) of the hex color:

"experimental.theme_overrides": {
  "editor.document_highlight.bracket_background": "#ffffff00"
}

This feature was added in #17566

[pbragamiranda]

legend! thanks @mgyarmathy !