Blank “Option” in Filter drop down/select menu

Hello!

I’m using the LocateAndFilter Pro plugin and I’ve created a “Neighborhoods” map and am using categories with which to filter using the “Dropdown” option. The code that is generated adds an empty <option> tag.

My first option is is “All Locations” category, to which it should be defaulting, but the empty option is inhibiting its display.

Any idea why or how the empty <option> is displaying? It would be great to have the option to set the default category in order to set the “selected” attribute on the option.

Side note: locateandfilter maps seem to load very intermittently on Firefox to the extent they don’t load more often than they do. This also happens in Chrome, but is much more noticeable in Firefox. (I use Firefox Developer Edition for development)

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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