Ace editor selects an entire line by default

Question

Ace editor by default selects an entire line..

For eg: When the page loads up the first line is selected by default.

Also when I click anywhere in the screen that entire line gets selected..

How can I disable this feature..

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Are you sure it's selection and not active line highlight? try doing

editor.setOption("highlightActiveLine", false)

Answer 2

With the latest version of ace you should use the following method.

editor.setHighlightActiveLine(false);

http://ace.c9.io/api/editor.html#Editor.setHighlightActiveLine

Answer 3

For all the People looking to deactivate the highlighting on the linenumber part (left of the textarea): This gets disabled with the editor.setHighlightGutterLine(false); method.