24db314b5051da133465b7d5e0944aeba4bf25a0
chmalee
  Fri Mar 6 11:58:12 2026 -0800
Make better labels when printing recent genomes to the menu bar. Don't print the default hg38/hg19/mm10/mm39/hs1 since they are already there by default, refs #36535

diff --git src/hg/js/utils.js src/hg/js/utils.js
index 47cc16ab302..e9c65f475b2 100644
--- src/hg/js/utils.js
+++ src/hg/js/utils.js
@@ -4584,36 +4584,45 @@
     let results = [];
     for (let genome of recentObj.stack) {
         if (recentObj.results[genome]) {
             let item = document.createElement("li");
             let link = document.createElement("a");
             link.href = recentGenomeHref(recentObj.results[genome]);
             link.textContent = recentObj.results[genome].label;
             item.appendChild(link);
             results.push(item);
         }
     }
 
     // construct the current list of labels
     const labelList = [];
     document.querySelectorAll("#tools1 > ul > li > a").forEach( (a) => {
+        if (a.textContent.includes("/")) {
+            // try to extract just the 'hg38' or 'mm10' part
+            let splitLabel = a.textContent.split("/");
+            if (splitLabel[1].length > 0)
+                labelList.push(splitLabel[1]);
+        } else {
             labelList.push(a.textContent);
+        }
     });
 
     // filter our list of recents against the list of "Genomes"
     let finalResult = results.filter( (result) => {
-        return !labelList.includes(result.firstChild.textContent);
+        return !labelList.some( (l) => {
+            return result.firstChild.textContent.includes(l);
+        });
     });
 
     // Only add separators and items if we have recents to add
     if (finalResult.length === 0) return;
 
     let lastLink = document.querySelector("#tools1 > ul > .last");
     let parent = lastLink.parentNode;
 
     // Add a separator after the default entries to separate from recents
     let defaultLinks = parent.querySelectorAll("li.defaultDropdownLink");
     if (defaultLinks.length > 0) {
         let lastDefault = defaultLinks[defaultLinks.length - 1];
         let separator = document.createElement("li");
         separator.className = "horizSep noHighlight";
         lastDefault.after(separator);