diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.txt b/docs/CHANGELOG.txt
index 37f6e455b..2322101fb 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ Other Changes:
   the arrow section of TreeNode(), the +/- buttons of InputInt()/InputFloat(), Selectable() with
   ImGuiSelectableFlags_SelectOnRelease. More generally: any direct use of ButtonBehavior() with
   the PressedOnClick/PressedOnDoubleClick/PressedOnRelease button policy.
+- Menus: Fixed vertical alignments of MenuItem() calls within a menu bar. (broken in 1.84). (#4538)
 - Menus: Adjust closing logic to accomodate for varying font size and dpi.
 - Menus: Fixed crash when navigating left inside a child window inside a sub-menu. (#4510).
 - Drag and Drop: Fixed using BeginDragDropSource() inside a BeginChild() that returned false. (#4515)
diff --git a/imgui_demo.cpp b/imgui_demo.cpp
index 2a16e3c6d..3cc50a8f1 100644
--- a/imgui_demo.cpp
+++ b/imgui_demo.cpp
@@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ void ImGui::ShowDemoWindow(bool* p_open)
             ImGui::MenuItem("Documents", NULL, &show_app_documents);
             ImGui::EndMenu();
         }
+        //if (ImGui::MenuItem("MenuItem")) {} // You can also use MenuItem() inside a menu bar!
         if (ImGui::BeginMenu("Tools"))
         {
             ImGui::MenuItem("Metrics/Debugger", NULL, &show_app_metrics);
diff --git a/imgui_widgets.cpp b/imgui_widgets.cpp
index f8aea16da..b055e1ae7 100644
--- a/imgui_widgets.cpp
+++ b/imgui_widgets.cpp
@@ -6851,7 +6851,7 @@ bool ImGui::BeginMenuEx(const char* label, const char* icon, bool enabled)
     }
     else
     {
-        // Menu inside a menu
+        // Menu inside a regular/vertical menu
         // (In a typical menu window where all items are BeginMenu() or MenuItem() calls, extra_w will always be 0.0f.
         //  Only when they are other items sticking out we're going to add spacing, yet only register minimum width into the layout system.
         popup_pos = ImVec2(pos.x, pos.y - style.WindowPadding.y);
@@ -7007,10 +7007,11 @@ bool ImGui::MenuItemEx(const char* label, const char* icon, const char* shortcut
         // Note that in this situation: we don't render the shortcut, we render a highlight instead of the selected tick mark.
         float w = label_size.x;
         window->DC.CursorPos.x += IM_FLOOR(style.ItemSpacing.x * 0.5f);
+        ImVec2 text_pos(window->DC.CursorPos.x + offsets->OffsetLabel, window->DC.CursorPos.y + window->DC.CurrLineTextBaseOffset);
         PushStyleVar(ImGuiStyleVar_ItemSpacing, ImVec2(style.ItemSpacing.x * 2.0f, style.ItemSpacing.y));
         pressed = Selectable("", selected, flags, ImVec2(w, 0.0f));
         PopStyleVar();
-        RenderText(pos + ImVec2(offsets->OffsetLabel, 0.0f), label);
+        RenderText(text_pos, label);
         window->DC.CursorPos.x += IM_FLOOR(style.ItemSpacing.x * (-1.0f + 0.5f)); // -1 spacing to compensate the spacing added when Selectable() did a SameLine(). It would also work to call SameLine() ourselves after the PopStyleVar().
     }
     else