dbc8dc013509561c1a9612491c0c84358c1db182
lrnassar
  Tue Sep 29 17:26:25 2026 -0700
Home page and contacts page search box did nothing when the text matched a position regex (chr1:1000000-1001000, BED-style, single base): searchBarClick only navigated in the non-position branch, after the hgSearch getChromName lookup.  Now a position goes straight to hgTracks, as hgSearch.js already does.  Broken since 258a0a679dd.  refs #38449

diff --git src/hg/htdocs/contacts.html src/hg/htdocs/contacts.html
index 29167f55cdc..988b82d46d7 100755
--- src/hg/htdocs/contacts.html
+++ src/hg/htdocs/contacts.html
@@ -179,30 +179,32 @@
             const params = new URLSearchParams(url.search);
             params.append("cjCmd", '{"getChromName": {"searchTerm": "' + term + '"}}');
             if (positionMatch === null) {
                 // user may have entered a full chromosome name, check for that asynchronosly:
                 $.ajax({
                     type: "GET",
                     url: "../cgi-bin/hgSearch",
                     data:  params.toString(),
                     dataType: "json",
                     trueSuccess: onSuccess,
                     success: onSuccess,
                     error: onFail,
                     cache: true
                 });
                 return false;
+            } else {
+                window.location.assign("../cgi-bin/hgTracks?position=" + term);
             }
 
         }
     }
     document.getElementById('searchBarSearchButton').addEventListener('click', searchBarClick);
     $('#searchBarSearchString').bind('keypress', function(e) {  // binds listener to url field
         if (e.which === 13) {  // listens for return key
              e.preventDefault();   // prevents return from also submitting whole form
              searchBarClick();
         }
     });
     </script>
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