From d772043d67603f0d0260fdbe990ba82e6f47f4c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Shambaugh <scottshambaugh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:08:49 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore empty text for tightbbox

---
 lib/matplotlib/text.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/text.py b/lib/matplotlib/text.py
index f30572382fe9..f0dd963fe477 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/text.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/text.py
@@ -1042,6 +1042,8 @@ def get_window_extent(self, renderer=None, dpi=None):
             return bbox
 
     def get_tightbbox(self, renderer=None):
+        if not self.get_visible() or self.get_text() == "":
+            return Bbox.null()
         # Exclude text at data coordinates outside the valid domain of the axes
         # scales (e.g., negative coordinates with a log scale).
         if (self.axes