diff --git a/addons/test_website/tests/__init__.py b/addons/test_website/tests/__init__.py
index 58eb63a6e22..e6b0379eb0c 100644
--- a/addons/test_website/tests/__init__.py
+++ b/addons/test_website/tests/__init__.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from . import test_fuzzy
 from . import test_image_upload_progress
 from . import test_is_multilang
 from . import test_media
+from . import test_menu
 from . import test_multi_company
 from . import test_page_manager
 from . import test_page
diff --git a/addons/test_website/tests/test_menu.py b/addons/test_website/tests/test_menu.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bba560dbc0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addons/test_website/tests/test_menu.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Part of Odoo. See LICENSE file for full copyright and licensing details.
+
+from lxml import html
+
+from odoo.addons.website.tools import MockRequest
+from odoo.tests import tagged, HttpCase
+
+
+@tagged('post_install', '-at_install')
+class TestWebsiteMenu(HttpCase):
+
+    def test_menu_active_element(self):
+        records = self.env['test.model'].create([{
+            'name': "Record 1",
+            'is_published': True,
+        }, {
+            'name': "Record 2",
+            'is_published': True,
+        }])
+
+        controller_url = '/test_website/model_item/'
+        website = self.env['website'].browse(1)
+
+        self.env['website.menu'].create([{
+            'name': records[0].name,
+            'url': f"{controller_url}{records[0].id}",
+            'parent_id': website.menu_id.id,
+            'website_id': website.id,
+            'sequence': 10,
+        }, {
+            'name': records[1].name,
+            'url': f"{controller_url}{records[1].id}",
+            'parent_id': website.menu_id.id,
+            'website_id': website.id,
+            'sequence': 20,
+        }])
+        for record in records:
+            record_url = f"{controller_url}{record.id}"
+            with MockRequest(self.env, website=website, url_root='', path=record_url):
+                tree = html.fromstring(self.env['ir.qweb']._render('test_website.model_item', {
+                    'record': record,
+                    'main_object': record,
+                }))
+                menu_link_el = tree.xpath(".//*[@id='top_menu']//a[@href='%s' and contains(@class, 'active')]" % record_url)
+                self.assertEqual(len(menu_link_el), 1, "The menu link related to the current record should be active")
diff --git a/addons/website/models/website.py b/addons/website/models/website.py
index 775654203f6..e4a07f98dfe 100644
--- a/addons/website/models/website.py
+++ b/addons/website/models/website.py
@@ -189,6 +189,14 @@ class Website(models.Model):
     def _get_menu_ids(self):
         return self.env['website.menu'].search([('website_id', '=', self.id)]).ids
 
+    @tools.ormcache('self.env.uid', 'self.id')
+    def is_menu_cache_disabled(self):
+        """
+        Checks if the website menu contains a record like url.
+        :return: True if the menu contains a record like url
+        """
+        return any(self.env['website.menu'].browse(self._get_menu_ids()).filtered(lambda menu: re.search(r"[/](([^/=?&]+-)?[0-9]+)([/]|$)", menu.url)))
+
     @api.model_create_multi
     def create(self, vals_list):
         for vals in vals_list:
diff --git a/addons/website/tools.py b/addons/website/tools.py
index debfb113134..4dda141e59d 100644
--- a/addons/website/tools.py
+++ b/addons/website/tools.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from odoo.tools.misc import hmac, DotDict, frozendict
 def MockRequest(
         env, *, path='/mockrequest', routing=True, multilang=True,
         context=frozendict(), cookies=frozendict(), country_code=None,
-        website=None, remote_addr=HOST, environ_base=None,
+        website=None, remote_addr=HOST, environ_base=None, url_root=None,
         # website_sale
         sale_order_id=None, website_sale_current_pl=None,
 ):
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ def MockRequest(
             cookies=cookies,
             referrer='',
             remote_addr=remote_addr,
+            url_root=url_root,
+            args=[],
         ),
         type='http',
         future_response=odoo.http.FutureResponse(),
@@ -51,6 +53,7 @@ def MockRequest(
             geoip={'country_code': country_code},
             sale_order_id=sale_order_id,
             website_sale_current_pl=website_sale_current_pl,
+            context={'lang': ''},
         ),
         geoip=odoo.http.GeoIP('127.0.0.1'),
         db=env.registry.db_name,
@@ -63,6 +66,8 @@ def MockRequest(
         website=website,
         render=lambda *a, **kw: '<MockResponse>',
     )
+    if url_root is not None:
+        request.httprequest.url = werkzeug.urls.url_join(url_root, path)
     if website:
         request.website_routing = website.id
 
diff --git a/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml b/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
index 20105434ec1..014859bd5d9 100644
--- a/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
+++ b/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
         <!-- website.is_public_user() is needed for menus having a page with
         restricted visibility (only shown to logged in user): public users and
         logged in users can't share the menu cache. -->
-        <attribute name="t-cache">xmlid,website,website.is_public_user()</attribute>
+        <attribute name="t-cache">None if website.is_menu_cache_disabled() else (xmlid,website,website.is_public_user())</attribute>
     </xpath>
 
     <xpath expr="//header" position="before">