diff --git a/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-tag-processor.php b/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-tag-processor.php
index 447f4dac1b..d5e43251af 100644
--- a/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-tag-processor.php
+++ b/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-tag-processor.php
@@ -2810,10 +2810,6 @@ class WP_HTML_Tag_Processor {
 
 		$decoded = html_entity_decode( $text, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5 | ENT_SUBSTITUTE );
 
-		if ( empty( $decoded ) ) {
-			return '';
-		}
-
 		/*
 		 * TEXTAREA skips a leading newline, but this newline may appear not only as the
 		 * literal character `\n`, but also as a character reference, such as in the
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index 5ee588f9ae..5ccfc60d90 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '6.5-beta3-57737';
+$wp_version = '6.5-beta3-57738';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.