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](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jnU8e.png)

Answer: 
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
}

```
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"`