diff --git a/addons/portal/views/portal_templates.xml b/addons/portal/views/portal_templates.xml
index 1cb3f1d2c40..72d8516c2be 100644
--- a/addons/portal/views/portal_templates.xml
+++ b/addons/portal/views/portal_templates.xml
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
                     </button>
                     <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="top_menu_collapse">
                         <ul class="nav navbar-nav ml-auto text-right" id="top_menu">
+                            <t t-call="portal.placeholder_user_sign_in">
+                                <t t-set="_item_class" t-value="'nav-item'"/>
+                                <t t-set="_link_class" t-value="'nav-link'"/>
+                            </t>
                             <t t-call="portal.user_dropdown">
                                 <t t-set="_user_name" t-value="true"/>
                                 <t t-set="_item_class" t-value="'nav-item dropdown'"/>
@@ -145,13 +149,12 @@
         </t>
     </template>
 
-    <template id="portal_show_sign_in" inherit_id="portal.frontend_layout" name="Show Sign In">
-        <xpath expr="//ul[@id='top_menu']" position="inside">
-            <li class="nav-item divider" groups="base.group_public"/>
-            <li groups="base.group_public" class="nav-item">
-                <a t-attf-href="/web/login" class="nav-link">
-                    <b>Sign in</b>
-                </a>
+    <template id="placeholder_user_sign_in" name="User Sign In Placeholder"/>
+
+    <template id="user_sign_in" name="User Sign In" inherit_id="portal.placeholder_user_sign_in">
+        <xpath expr="." position="inside">
+            <li groups="base.group_public" t-attf-class="#{_item_class}">
+                <a t-attf-href="/web/login" t-attf-class="#{_link_class}">Sign in</a>
             </li>
         </xpath>
     </template>
diff --git a/addons/website/tests/test_views.py b/addons/website/tests/test_views.py
index 2c0c1930bcc..f07dfa898ee 100644
--- a/addons/website/tests/test_views.py
+++ b/addons/website/tests/test_views.py
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ class Crawler(HttpCase):
         })
         self.inherit_view.write({'name': 'Main layout', 'key': '_website.layout'})
 
-        self.inherit_view.copy({'name': 'Show Sign In', 'customize_show': True, 'key': '_portal.portal_show_sign_in'})
+        self.inherit_view.copy({'name': 'Sign In', 'customize_show': True, 'key': '_portal.user_sign_in'})
         view_logo = self.inherit_view.copy({
             'name': 'Show Logo',
             'inherit_id': self.inherit_view.id,
@@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ class Crawler(HttpCase):
 
         self.assertEqual(
             [v['name'] for v in res],
-            ['Show Sign In', 'Affix Top Menu', 'Show Logo', 'Filters', 'Photos', 'Quotes', 'Filter by Category', 'Filter by Country'],
+            ['Sign In', 'Affix Top Menu', 'Show Logo', 'Filters', 'Photos', 'Quotes', 'Filter by Category', 'Filter by Country'],
             "Sequence should not be taken into account for customize menu",
         )
         self.assertEqual(
@@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ class Crawler(HttpCase):
         res = response.json()['result']
         self.assertEqual(
             [v['name'] for v in res],
-            ['Show Sign In', 'Affix Top Menu', 'Show Logo', 'Filters', 'Photos', 'Quotes', 'Filter by Category', 'Filter by Country'],
+            ['Sign In', 'Affix Top Menu', 'Show Logo', 'Filters', 'Photos', 'Quotes', 'Filter by Category', 'Filter by Country'],
             "multi-website COW should not impact customize views order (COW view will have a bigger ID and should not be last)",
         )
         self.assertEqual(
@@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ class Crawler(HttpCase):
         res = response.json()['result']
         self.assertEqual(
             [v['name'] for v in res],
-            ['Show Sign In', 'Affix Top Menu', 'Show Logo', 'Filters', 'Photos', 'Quotes', 'Filter by Category', 'Filter by Country'],
+            ['Sign In', 'Affix Top Menu', 'Show Logo', 'Filters', 'Photos', 'Quotes', 'Filter by Category', 'Filter by Country'],
             "multi-website COW should not impact customize views order (COW view will have a bigger ID and should not be last) (2)",
         )
         self.assertEqual(
diff --git a/addons/website/views/snippets/snippets.xml b/addons/website/views/snippets/snippets.xml
index aca5e60ce5d..a0884d0d570 100644
--- a/addons/website/views/snippets/snippets.xml
+++ b/addons/website/views/snippets/snippets.xml
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@
          data-selector="#wrapwrap > header"
          data-no-check="true"
          groups="website.group_website_designer">
-        <we-checkbox string="Sign In" data-customize-website-views="portal.portal_show_sign_in" data-reload="/"/>
+        <we-checkbox string="Sign In" data-customize-website-views="portal.user_sign_in" data-reload="/"/>
         <we-colorpicker string="Colors"
                         data-customize-website-color="" data-color="menu"
                         data-with-combinations="true"/>
diff --git a/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml b/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
index ae91cfa72ee..9ec0821635a 100644
--- a/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
+++ b/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
     <xpath expr="//header//ul[@id='top_menu']" position="attributes">
         <attribute name="class" separator=" " add="o_menu_loading" remove="text-right ml-auto"/>
     </xpath>
-    <xpath expr="//header//ul[@id='top_menu']/t[@t-call='portal.user_dropdown']" position="before">
+    <xpath expr="//header//ul[@id='top_menu']/t[@t-call='portal.placeholder_user_sign_in']" position="before">
         <t t-foreach="website.menu_id.child_id" t-as="submenu">
             <t t-call="website.submenu">
                 <t t-set="item_class" t-value="'nav-item'"/>
diff --git a/addons/website_sale/static/tests/tours/website_sale_complete_flow.js b/addons/website_sale/static/tests/tours/website_sale_complete_flow.js
index b5426f99a58..eb940b1a0c3 100644
--- a/addons/website_sale/static/tests/tours/website_sale_complete_flow.js
+++ b/addons/website_sale/static/tests/tours/website_sale_complete_flow.js
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ odoo.define('website_sale_tour.tour', function (require) {
     },
     {
         content: "Sign in as admin",
-        trigger: '#top_menu li a b:contains("Sign in")',
+        trigger: 'header a[href="/web/login"]',
     },
     {
         content: "Submit login",
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ odoo.define('website_sale_tour.tour', function (require) {
     },
     {
         content: "Sign in as admin",
-        trigger: '#top_menu li a b:contains("Sign in")',
+        trigger: 'header a[href="/web/login"]',
     },
     {
         content: "Submit login",
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ odoo.define('website_sale_tour.tour', function (require) {
     },
     {
         content: "Sign in as abc",
-        trigger: '#top_menu li a b:contains("Sign in")',
+        trigger: 'header a[href="/web/login"]',
     },
     {
         content: "Submit login",