We study the existence of positive solutions for the Berger plate equation with Navier boundary condition P \(\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \Delta ^2 u-m\Big (x, \int _\Omega |\nabla u|^2{\text {d}}x\Big )\Delta u =f(x,u,|\nabla u|,\Delta u), & x\in \Omega ,\\ u=\Delta u=0, & x\in \partial \Omega ,\\ \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}\) where \(\Omega \) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb {R}^N\) , \(N\in \mathbb {N}\) , with a smooth boundary \(\partial \Omega \) , \(m:\Omega \times \mathbb {R}^+ \rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) is a continuous function, \(f:\Omega \times \mathbb {R}\times \mathbb {R}^+\times \mathbb {R}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) is a Carathéodory function. The proofs of the main results are based on the topological degree and continuum theory.