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Disable rainbow variables in PhpStorm

I accidentally enabled rainbow variables in PhpStorm and it looks absolutely horrible. It sounds kinda silly but I just cant find the settings to disable them.

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I have looked up the extension and followed the steps to uninstall but I haven't found anything related to rainbow variables https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/17748-rainbow-variable

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I also uninstalled Rainbow Brackets and everything else relating to styling code or variables from the plugins page

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And yes I restarted the IDE after those changes with no success. I'm currently on the version 2022.2.3 of PhpStorm.

Solution

  • If you have disabled that Rainbow Variables plugin and still seeing the functionality then it might be PhpStorm's Semantic Highlighting in action.

    Settings/Preferences | Editor | Color Scheme | Language Defaults | Semantic highlighting and make sure it is disabled there.

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    Please note that Rainbow Brackets plugin turns the above option ON automatically and prevents disabling it (on IDE restart). This should be fixed in latest plugin versions: