Disable automatic text box?

[mobys96118689]

Previously when using photoshop I could click anywhere using the text tool and it would freely type from wherever I had clicked.  Now it just automatically draws a giant bounding box for the text.  How do I disable this?

[barbara_a]

If you click with the Type tool, Photoshop enters placeholder text and highlights that text. If you drag with the Type tool you get a specific area to type within.

If you want to click and not see the highlighted placeholder text, in Preferences, turn off "Fill New Type Layers With Placeholder Text".

[jestonyl30151890]

That gets rid of the automatic fill in text. But what about the massive box that appears? It still shows up for me. 

[jestonyl30151890 · Accepted solution]

Nevermind I figured it out. My mouse was bugging and somehow it was dragging while clicking resulting in the text box. Replaced the mouse and its all good. 

[Rjanimaniac]

Thanks ..... adobe community support is useless as expected

[Duker]

For me it was switching between mouse and wacom-tablet. After drawing I used my mouse and had this problem. By using the pen again for the the text-tool it work as usual.

Just in case someone comes a cross this and doesn't have a buggy mouse 😉