How to cancel search highlight in eclipse

Question

When I search something in eclipse, the search items stay highlighted for sometime. How do I remove this after I have found what I was looking for.

Answer 1

Remove your matches in the search view, that will remove the highlighting. I.e., click the button with the two X's in the search view.

If you cannot see that view, navigate to window -> show view -> Search

Answer 2

AFIAK, the search result view has a toolbar button to clear the search results. This removes the highlighting in the editor.