How do I un-highlight all the characters?

[Markis41]

In my game, all of the characters are highlighted and I don't know what I pressed to make this happen. How do I un-highlight them?

[Fen]

the grave key, or also known as tilde. It'll be the ` and ~ key above tab. unless you changed the keybind.

[Talamarie]

Or maybe go into the options and turn off the high-lighting options.

[Stormwind]

Originally posted by John Snow dunsjohn:

the grave key, or also known as tilde. It'll be the ` and ~ key above tab. unless you changed the keybind.

I have never heard of "grave key", what is that supposed to represent?

(And no fair saying you "know nothing"!)

[Jerubius]

The grave key is right above the tab key. As he said, it's also called the tilde key. The grave is that backwards apostrophe character ` that shares a key with the tilde ~ character.

It's primarily employed as an accent over characters, which you can't use the grave key for, so one might question its usefulness, especially considering the tilde is the its alternate character, which has more use as a standalone character despite being rarely used itself. I guess it's just a relic of qwerty keyboards coming from typewriters where you could just roll back a character to superimpose a second character, in which case the grave could be used for its common usage as an accent.