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As can be seen on the first image there are outlines around the brackets and parenthesis (blue and red colored), on the second picture is shown what happens to these outlines if I move away to another line ready to type. The blue boxes become solid black and the red become dotted black, but they are still there. They annoy me immensely and I would be grateful if someone would show me how to remove these box highlightings.

Example of problem, not the red and blue boxes

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I found the answer myself. These boxes are called placeholders. They can be removed by going to Options > Configure TexStudio. Then on the bottom left check Show Advanced Options. Go to the Completion tab on the left and in this tab uncheck Arguments as Placeholders on the top right. See the attached image.example

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  • This removes the red boxes, but what about the text placeholders? like the den and num in \dfrac{num}{den}?
    – kennyB
    Commented May 2, 2019 at 18:30
  • It has been a long time since I have used TexStudio, but as far as I remember, it solved the issue for me, if it doesn't remove all the placeholders im not sure. It's been too long since I have worked with TexStudio.
    – jkrod
    Commented May 3, 2019 at 8:27
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    Thanks for this help. This was a very big eyesore for a very long time. BTW, I would like to know how did you change the color of those placeholders? I use a dark background for editor and those placeholders appear comepletely white. I have not been able to find any setting to change that color.
    – magguu
    Commented May 2, 2020 at 15:04
  • every time I install texstudio on new PC, I spend at least one hr finding and unchecking all such stupid annoying configuration settings to clear everything. I have no idea why they do this, May be just to annoy people.
    – Nasser
    Commented Mar 29, 2022 at 5:41
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The boxes are placeholders. You can navigate between them using Ctrl+Left/Right.

They vanish, if you type over them e.g. if the cursor is before a closing bracket placeholder ), typing ) will move the cursor past and remove the placeholder.

You can also use Idefix -> Remove Placeholder (Ctrl+Shift+K).

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  • Okay, thanks for the additional explanation :)
    – jkrod
    Commented Sep 20, 2016 at 8:29
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    The problem is the damn thing never properly disappear once cursor is somewhere else. But +1 for that shortcut!
    – Pouya
    Commented Feb 1, 2018 at 17:00

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