2490e8607ac86b0d23962ee8c0f9b47716ee9e3d
chmalee
  Wed Mar 18 16:56:56 2026 -0700
woops forgot to add position saving to hgSearch, refs #34588

diff --git src/hg/js/hgSearch.js src/hg/js/hgSearch.js
index 965f15cabfa..bb424bb2c62 100644
--- src/hg/js/hgSearch.js
+++ src/hg/js/hgSearch.js
@@ -808,30 +808,33 @@
             }
 
             // if the user entered a plain position string like chr1:blah-blah, just
             // go to the old cgi/hgTracks
             var canonMatch = searchTerm.match(canonicalRangeExp);
             var gbrowserMatch = searchTerm.match(gbrowserRangeExp);
             var lengthMatch = searchTerm.match(lengthRangeExp);
             var bedMatch = searchTerm.match(bedRangeExp);
             var sqlMatch = searchTerm.match(sqlRangeExp);
             var singleMatch = searchTerm.match(singleBaseExp);
             var gnomadRangeMatch = searchTerm.match(gnomadRangeExp);
             var gnomadVarMatch = searchTerm.match(gnomadVarExp);
             var positionMatch = canonMatch || gbrowserMatch || lengthMatch || bedMatch || sqlMatch || singleMatch || gnomadVarMatch || gnomadRangeMatch;
             if (positionMatch !== null) {
                 var prevCgi = uiState.prevCgi !== undefined ? uiState.prevCgi : "hgTracks";
+                // save this to the recents stack, strip any html content first
+                let newPos = searchTerm.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, '');
+                addRecentSearch(db, newPos, {id: newPos, value: newPos, label: newPos});
                 window.location.replace("../cgi-bin/" + prevCgi + "?db=" + db + "&position=" + encodeURIComponent(searchTerm));
                 return;
             }
 
             _.assign(uiState, {"search": searchTerm});
             cart.send({ getSearchResults:
                         {
                         db: db,
                         search: searchTerm
                         }
                     },
                     handleRefreshState,
                     handleErrorState);
             // always update the results when a search has happened
             cart.flush();