Removing anti-aliasing on shaps (particularly line tool)

Hi all, I am new on the forum
I searching around for an option to disable anti-aliasing on the Shape tools. When I draw a straight horisontal line with Weight set to 1px it draws a 2 pixel high line with the second line being partly transparent
Is there any way i can prevent this or what would be the best substitute to draw straight lines for web deisgn ?
Regards
Thomas

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On the options bar, select the Fill Pixels mode. (third button from left).
On the last option on the options bar, turn off "anti-alias".
It sounds like you were creating shape layers, which don't have an option to turn off anti-aliasing.

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