tags which leads to extra whitespace. * Avoiding whitespace saves 5KB of HTML for an international address field with a country dropdown with 252 options. * * @since 6.3.1 * * @param string $option The string used as the option label. * @param bool $selected True if the option should be selected. * @param array $params Other HTML params for the option. * @return void */ public static function echo_dropdown_option( $option, $selected, $params = array() ) { echo ''; echo esc_html( $option === '' ? ' ' : $option ); echo ''; } }