diff --git a/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml b/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
index a322d5c55f2..0664f8e4281 100644
--- a/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
+++ b/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
@@ -90,26 +90,28 @@
 
 <!-- Layout -->
 <template id="submenu" name="Submenu">
-    <li t-if="submenu.is_visible and not submenu.child_id.filtered(lambda menu: menu.is_visible)" t-attf-class="#{('%s-item ' % submenu_type) if submenu_type else ''}">
+    <t t-set="has_visible_submenu" t-value="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 ''}">
         <a t-att-href="submenu.clean_url()"
-            t-attf-class="#{'nav-link' if submenu_type != 'breadcrumb' else ''} #{' active' if submenu.clean_url() and unslug_url(request.httprequest.path) == unslug_url(submenu.clean_url()) else ''}"
+            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"
             t-ignore="true"
             t-att-target="'_blank' if submenu.new_window else None">
             <span t-field="submenu.name"/>
         </a>
     </li>
-    <li t-if="submenu.child_id.filtered(lambda menu: menu.is_visible)" t-attf-class="#{('%s-item ' % submenu_type) if submenu_type else ''}dropdown #{
+    <li t-if="has_visible_submenu" 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'
         }">
-        <a t-attf-class="#{('%s-link ' % submenu_type) if submenu_type else ''}dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#">
+        <a t-attf-class="#{link_class or ''} dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#">
             <span t-field="submenu.name"/>
         </a>
         <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
             <t t-foreach="submenu.child_id" t-as="submenu">
                 <t t-call="website.submenu">
-                    <t t-set="submenu_type" t-value="'dropdown'"/>
+                    <t t-set="item_class" t-value="None"/>
+                    <t t-set="link_class" t-value="'dropdown-item'"/>
                 </t>
             </t>
         </ul>
@@ -220,7 +222,8 @@
     <xpath expr="//header//ul[@id='top_menu']/li[hasclass('divider')]" position="before">
         <t t-foreach="website.menu_id.child_id" t-as="submenu">
             <t t-call="website.submenu">
-                <t t-set="submenu_type" t-value="'nav'"/>
+                <t t-set="item_class" t-value="'nav-item'"/>
+                <t t-set="link_class" t-value="'nav-link'"/>
             </t>
         </t>
     </xpath>
diff --git a/addons/website_event/views/event_templates.xml b/addons/website_event/views/event_templates.xml
index 5ef56dee25e..71b13f09732 100644
--- a/addons/website_event/views/event_templates.xml
+++ b/addons/website_event/views/event_templates.xml
@@ -220,7 +220,8 @@
                     <ol name="Event Menu" class="breadcrumb mb0" id="event_menu" t-if="event.menu_id" t-att-data-content_menu_id="editable and event.menu_id.id">
                         <t t-foreach="event.menu_id.child_id" t-as="submenu">
                             <t t-call="website.submenu">
-                                <t t-set="submenu_type" t-value="'breadcrumb'"/>
+                                <t t-set="item_class" t-value="'breadcrumb-item'"/>
+                                <t t-set="link_class" t-value="None"/>
                             </t>
                         </t>
                     </ol>
diff --git a/addons/website_event_track/views/event_track_templates.xml b/addons/website_event_track/views/event_track_templates.xml
index 677deb4c07b..9c57c762a00 100644
--- a/addons/website_event_track/views/event_track_templates.xml
+++ b/addons/website_event_track/views/event_track_templates.xml
@@ -191,7 +191,8 @@
                         <ol name="Event Menu" class="breadcrumb mb0" id="event_menu" t-if="event.menu_id" t-att-data-content_menu_id="editable and event.menu_id.id">
                             <t t-foreach="event.menu_id.child_id" t-as="submenu">
                                 <t t-call="website.submenu">
-                                    <t t-set="submenu_type" t-value="'breadcrumb'"/>
+                                    <t t-set="item_class" t-value="'breadcrumb-item'"/>
+                                    <t t-set="link_class" t-value="None"/>
                                 </t>
                             </t>
                         </ol>