Text widget puts a space in <h3> </h3> if title empty

[rulatir]

If the title of a text widget is left empty, the HTML output contains space in the <h3> </h3> tag. This causes the heading to occupy space if h3 is given margins by the stylesheet (which is normally the case). This in turn fights the intended layout. Fix it please!

[ocean90]

Which theme did you use? Any plugins active?

From default-widgets.php:

class WP_Widget_Text extends WP_Widget {
	function widget( $args, $instance ) {
		extract($args);
		$title = apply_filters( 'widget_title', empty( $instance['title'] ) ? '' : $instance['title'], $instance, $this->id_base );
		$text = apply_filters( 'widget_text', empty( $instance['text'] ) ? '' : $instance['text'], $instance );
		echo $before_widget;
		if ( !empty( $title ) ) { echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; } ?>
			<div class="textwidget"><?php echo !empty( $instance['filter'] ) ? wpautop( $text ) : $text; ?></div>
		<?php
		echo $after_widget;
	}

So, there shouldn't be any title output if the title field is empty.

[rulatir]

Thanks for quick response! You were right, ET are the culprit. From DailyNotes/epanel/custom_functions.php:

add_filter('widget_title','et_widget_force_title');
function et_widget_force_title( $title ){	
	#add an empty title for widgets ( otherwise it might break the sidebar layout )
	if ( $title == '' ) $title = ' ';
	
	return $title;
}

Brilliant. Fortunately a filter with priority 20 will undo this. Resolved/invalid.