diff --git a/app/app.vue b/app/app.vue
index a508c15..6584301 100644
--- a/app/app.vue
+++ b/app/app.vue
@@ -25,10 +25,17 @@ onNuxtReady(() => loadSearchSections())
 
 const nuxtApp = useNuxtApp()
 const navTree = computed<NavigationItem[]>(() => prefixNavigation(navigation.value ?? [], content.value.base))
-const navigationLayout = ref(findNavigationLayout(navTree.value, route.path))
+const resolveNavigationLayout = () => {
+  if (route.meta.layout === false) return undefined
+  if (route.meta.layout === 'docs' || route.meta.layout === 'page') return route.meta.layout
+  const layout = findNavigationLayout(navTree.value, route.path)
+  if (!layout && route.matched?.[0]?.name === 'slug') return 'docs'
+  return layout
+}
+const navigationLayout = ref(resolveNavigationLayout())
 onNuxtReady(() => {
   nuxtApp.hook('page:finish', () => {
-    navigationLayout.value = findNavigationLayout(navTree.value, route.path)
+    navigationLayout.value = resolveNavigationLayout()
   })
 })
 const searchFiles = computed<SearchSection[]>(() =>
@@ -99,9 +106,7 @@ defineShortcuts({
         <LayoutsDocs v-else-if="navigationLayout === 'docs'">
           <NuxtPage />
         </LayoutsDocs>
-        <UContainer v-else>
-          <NuxtPage />
-        </UContainer>
+        <NuxtPage v-else />
       </Suspense>
     </UMain>
 
diff --git a/app/types/navigation-layout.d.ts b/app/types/navigation-layout.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2654ab5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/types/navigation-layout.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+declare module 'nuxt/app' {
+  interface NuxtLayouts {
+    docs: Record<string, never>
+    page: Record<string, never>
+  }
+}
+
+export {}
diff --git a/app/utils/navigation.ts b/app/utils/navigation.ts
index dc718d0..cff2c86 100644
--- a/app/utils/navigation.ts
+++ b/app/utils/navigation.ts
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ export function findNavigationLayout(
   navigation: NavigationItem[] | undefined | null,
   path: string | undefined
 ): NavigationLayout | undefined {
-  if (!navigation?.length || !path || path === '/') return undefined
+  if (!navigation?.length || !path) return undefined
 
   let layout: NavigationLayout | undefined
   const visit = (items: NavigationItem[]) => {
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ export function findNavigationLayout(
   }
 
   visit(navigation)
-  return layout || 'docs'
+  return layout
 }
 
 /** Trail of navigation items leading to `path`, including the page itself. */
diff --git a/eslint.config.mjs b/eslint.config.mjs
index 1181ca0..6f403e9 100644
--- a/eslint.config.mjs
+++ b/eslint.config.mjs
@@ -36,7 +36,15 @@ export default createConfigForNuxt({
     // `index.vue`, `docs.vue`, `[...slug].vue` are the framework's naming, not ours.
     // `Browser.vue` is exempt for a different reason: it's addressed from markdown
     // (`::browser`), so its name is part of the content API.
-    files: ['app/pages/**/*.vue', 'app/layouts/**/*.vue', 'app/error.vue', 'app/components/Browser.vue'],
+    files: [
+      'app/pages/**/*.vue',
+      'playground/app/pages/**/*.vue',
+      'app/layouts/**/*.vue',
+      'playground/app/layouts/**/*.vue',
+      'app/error.vue',
+      'playground/app/error.vue',
+      'app/components/Browser.vue',
+    ],
     rules: {
       'vue/multi-word-component-names': 'off',
     },
diff --git a/playground/app/pages/full.vue b/playground/app/pages/full.vue
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b0fc791
--- /dev/null
+++ b/playground/app/pages/full.vue
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<template>
+  <div>This page is a custom vue page and should not have any layout</div>
+</template>
diff --git a/test/navigation.test.ts b/test/navigation.test.ts
index da4aa0d..8110ef2 100644
--- a/test/navigation.test.ts
+++ b/test/navigation.test.ts
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ describe('findNavigationLayout', () => {
   })
 
   it('does not inherit a layout from a partial path segment match', () => {
-    expect(findNavigationLayout(navigation, '/examples-extended/page')).toBe('docs')
+    expect(findNavigationLayout(navigation, '/examples-extended/page')).toBeUndefined()
   })
 
   it('supports navigation paths prefixed for version previews', () => {
@@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ describe('findNavigationLayout', () => {
     expect(findNavigationLayout(previewNavigation, '/tree/feature/examples/overview')).toBe('page')
   })
 
-  it('falls back to docs without a matching supported layout', () => {
-    expect(findNavigationLayout(navigation, '/unknown')).toBe('docs')
+  it('returns undefined without a matching supported layout', () => {
+    expect(findNavigationLayout(navigation, '/unknown')).toBeUndefined()
     expect(findNavigationLayout(
       [{ title: 'Custom', path: '/custom', layout: 'custom' }] as unknown as NavigationItem[],
       '/custom'
-    )).toBe('docs')
+    )).toBeUndefined()
   })
 
   it('returns undefined for the landing page or without enough navigation context', () => {