title: Replace default "Choose an Option" text in Magento layered navigation dropdown
body: <p>I am using dropdowns to display my layered navigation attribute values. I have 3 filters - price, size and color. 
  This is what I am trying to do:
  1. Get dropdowns for the layered navigation filters.
  2. Get the attribute label/name to show up as the first option. Currently, my code puts a default "Choose an Option" value for each dropdown, which I would like to replace with something like "Choose Price", "Choose Size" and "Choose Color".
  Here is my current code for template/catalog/layer/filter.phtml. The dropdown works, but I am stuck at getting the attribute label instead of "Choose an Option" </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select onchange="setLocation(this.value)"&gt;
  &lt;option value='' disabled selected style='display:none;'&gt;Choose an Option&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/option&gt; 
  &lt;?php foreach ($this-&gt;getItems() as $_item): ?&gt;
  &lt;option
      &lt;?php if ($_item-&gt;getCount() &gt; 0): ?&gt;
      value="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;urlEscape($_item-&gt;getUrl()) ?&gt;"&gt;&lt;?php echo $_item-&gt;getLabel() ?&gt;
      &lt;?php else: echo '&gt;' . $_item-&gt;getLabel() ?&gt;
      &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;
      (&lt;?php echo $_item-&gt;getCount() ?&gt;)
  &lt;/option&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
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