@elemech In MDB5 Angular both side nav and navbar components are much easier to customize, you can combine those components to get any configuration you need:

https://mdbootstrap.com/docs/b5/angular/navigation/navbar/ https://mdbootstrap.com/docs/b5/angular/navigation/sidenav/

Please let us know if you encounter any problems.

We do not recommend using both MDBA4 and MDBA5 in the same project because there will be many conflicts in styles and components selectors. Both libraries are also not yet ready for use in projects using Angular 13, but the updates to a new major versions should be ready in the near future.