diff --git a/common/paths/pathparser.go b/common/paths/pathparser.go
index 1cae710e8..8b9259bf7 100644
--- a/common/paths/pathparser.go
+++ b/common/paths/pathparser.go
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ func (p *Path) Base() string {
 // For pages with Type set, we treat that as the section.
 func (p *Path) BaseReTyped(typ string) (d string) {
 	base := p.Base()
-	if typ == "" || p.Section() == typ {
+	if p.Section() == typ {
 		return base
 	}
 	d = "/" + typ
diff --git a/hugolib/page.go b/hugolib/page.go
index bb3835c1e..dc0d9f4bc 100644
--- a/hugolib/page.go
+++ b/hugolib/page.go
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ func (ps *pageState) initCommonProviders(pp pagePaths) error {
 func (po *pageOutput) GetInternalTemplateBasePathAndDescriptor() (string, tplimpl.TemplateDescriptor) {
 	p := po.p
 	f := po.f
-	base := p.PathInfo().BaseReTyped(p.m.pageConfig.Type)
+	base := p.PathInfo().BaseReTyped(p.m.Type())
 	return base, tplimpl.TemplateDescriptor{
 		Kind:           p.Kind(),
 		Lang:           p.Language().Lang,
diff --git a/hugolib/page_test.go b/hugolib/page_test.go
index 1da67e58f..d4185531b 100644
--- a/hugolib/page_test.go
+++ b/hugolib/page_test.go
@@ -2000,3 +2000,61 @@ title: home en
 	b.AssertLogContains("Using index.de.md in your content's root directory is usually incorrect for your home page. You should use _index.de.md instead.")
 	b.AssertLogContains("Using index.en.org in your content's root directory is usually incorrect for your home page. You should use _index.en.org instead.")
 }
+
+// Issue 13826
+func TestTemplateSelectionIssue13826(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	files := `
+-- hugo.toml --
+disableKinds = ['home','rss','section','sitemap','taxonomy','term']
+-- content/p1.md --
+---
+title: p1 (type implicitly set to page)
+---
+-- content/p2.md --
+---
+title: p2 (type explicitly set to page)
+type: page
+---
+-- content/p3.md --
+---
+title: p3 (type explicitly set to foo)
+type: foo
+---
+-- content/foo/p4.md --
+---
+title: p4 (type implicitly set to foo)
+---
+-- content/bar/p5.md --
+---
+title: p5 (type explicitly set to foo)
+type: foo
+---
+-- layouts/page/page.html --
+layouts/page/page.html
+-- layouts/foo/page.html --
+layouts/foo/page.html
+-- layouts/page.html --
+layouts/page.html
+`
+
+	b := Test(t, files)
+
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/p1/index.html", "layouts/page/page.html")
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/p2/index.html", "layouts/page/page.html")
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/p3/index.html", "layouts/foo/page.html")
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/foo/p4/index.html", "layouts/foo/page.html")
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/bar/p5/index.html", "layouts/foo/page.html")
+
+	files = strings.ReplaceAll(files, "-- layouts/page/page.html --", "-- delete-me-1.txt --")
+	files = strings.ReplaceAll(files, "-- layouts/foo/page.html --", "-- delete-me-2.txt --")
+
+	b = Test(t, files)
+
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/p1/index.html", "layouts/page.html")
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/p2/index.html", "layouts/page.html")
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/p3/index.html", "layouts/page.html")
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/foo/p4/index.html", "layouts/page.html")
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/bar/p5/index.html", "layouts/page.html")
+}