diff --git a/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml b/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
index 57f440624aa..aab81b13f8c 100644
--- a/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
+++ b/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 <odoo>
 
 <template id="submenu" name="Submenu">
-    <t t-set="has_visible_submenu" t-value="(submenu.is_mega_menu and submenu.is_visible) or submenu.child_id.filtered(lambda menu: menu.is_visible)"/>
-    <li t-if="submenu.is_visible and not has_visible_submenu" t-attf-class="#{item_class or ''}">
+    <t t-set="show_dropdown" t-value="(submenu.is_mega_menu and submenu.is_visible) or submenu.child_id.filtered(lambda menu: menu.is_visible)"/>
+    <li t-if="submenu.is_visible and not (submenu.child_id or submenu.is_mega_menu)" t-attf-class="#{item_class or ''}">
         <a t-att-href="submenu.clean_url()"
             t-attf-class="#{link_class or ''} #{'active' if submenu.clean_url() and unslug_url(request.httprequest.path) == unslug_url(submenu.clean_url()) else ''}"
             role="menuitem"
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
             <span t-field="submenu.name"/>
         </a>
     </li>
-    <li t-if="has_visible_submenu" t-attf-class="#{item_class or ''} dropdown #{
+    <li t-elif="show_dropdown" t-attf-class="#{item_class or ''} dropdown #{
         (submenu.clean_url() and submenu.clean_url() != '/' and any(request.httprequest.path == child.url for child in submenu.child_id if child.url) or
          (submenu.clean_url() and request.httprequest.path == submenu.clean_url())) and 'active'
         } #{submenu.is_mega_menu and 'position-static'}">