diff --git a/playground/app/pages/components/navigation-menu.vue b/playground/app/pages/components/navigation-menu.vue
index ebd2ca1f..a05a52f2 100644
--- a/playground/app/pages/components/navigation-menu.vue
+++ b/playground/app/pages/components/navigation-menu.vue
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ const items = [
       label: 'NavigationMenu',
       icon: 'i-lucide-file',
       description: 'Display a list of links.',
-      to: '/components/navigation-menu'
+      to: '/components/navigation-menu',
+      trailingIcon: 'i-lucide-check'
     }, {
       label: 'Pagination',
       icon: 'i-lucide-file',
diff --git a/src/runtime/components/NavigationMenu.vue b/src/runtime/components/NavigationMenu.vue
index d0965418..2d423de7 100644
--- a/src/runtime/components/NavigationMenu.vue
+++ b/src/runtime/components/NavigationMenu.vue
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ const lists = computed(() => props.items?.length ? (Array.isArray(props.items[0]
         <UIcon v-if="item.target === '_blank'" :name="appConfig.ui.icons.external" :class="ui.linkLabelExternalIcon({ class: props.ui?.linkLabelExternalIcon, active })" />
       </span>
 
-      <span v-if="item.badge || item.children?.length || !!slots[item.slot ? `${item.slot}-trailing` : 'item-trailing']" :class="ui.linkTrailing({ class: props.ui?.linkTrailing })">
+      <span v-if="item.badge || (orientation === 'horizontal' && (item.children?.length || !!slots[item.slot ? `${item.slot}-content` : 'item-content'])) || (orientation === 'vertical' && item.children?.length) || item.trailingIcon || !!slots[item.slot ? `${item.slot}-trailing` : 'item-trailing']" :class="ui.linkTrailing({ class: props.ui?.linkTrailing })">
         <slot :name="item.slot ? `${item.slot}-trailing` : 'item-trailing'" :item="(item as T)" :active="active" :index="index">
           <UBadge
             v-if="item.badge"
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ const lists = computed(() => props.items?.length ? (Array.isArray(props.items[0]
           />
 
           <UIcon v-if="(orientation === 'horizontal' && (item.children?.length || !!slots[item.slot ? `${item.slot}-content` : 'item-content'])) || (orientation === 'vertical' && item.children?.length)" :name="item.trailingIcon || trailingIcon || appConfig.ui.icons.chevronDown" :class="ui.linkTrailingIcon({ class: props.ui?.linkTrailingIcon, active })" />
+          <UIcon v-else-if="item.trailingIcon" :name="item.trailingIcon" :class="ui.linkTrailingIcon({ class: props.ui?.linkTrailingIcon, active })" />
         </slot>
       </span>
     </slot>