The previous :deep() overrides had equal specificity to Vuexy's unscoped styles in VerticalNavLayout.vue. Since child component styles are injected after parent styles, Vuexy's inset-block-start: 0 won by source order. Add !important and simplify the navbar selector to target .layout-navbar directly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>