diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index dc1d14a45..788b5d0fb 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 * Fixed #893: Correctly call `terra::crs()` when checking the CRS of a `SpatVector` object in `pointData()` or `polygonData()` (thanks @mkoohafkan, #894).
 
+* Applying new CSS rule to patch leaflet by explicitly lefet aligning legend text content.
+
 # leaflet 2.2.1
 
 * When `addProviderTiles()` is used with `{leaflet.providers}` version 2.0.0 or later, the `leaflet-providers` HTML dependency produced can be correctly cached by knitr. When used with older versions of `{leaflet.providers}`, the HTML dependency uses temp files that break knitr's caching mechanism (thanks @qdread, @jaredlander; #884).
diff --git a/inst/htmlwidgets/lib/rstudio_leaflet/rstudio_leaflet.css b/inst/htmlwidgets/lib/rstudio_leaflet/rstudio_leaflet.css
index c10d2f113..527df39a4 100644
--- a/inst/htmlwidgets/lib/rstudio_leaflet/rstudio_leaflet.css
+++ b/inst/htmlwidgets/lib/rstudio_leaflet/rstudio_leaflet.css
@@ -39,3 +39,9 @@ Fix for https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues/1949 */
 	max-width: none !important;
 	max-height: none !important;
 }
+
+/* Add explicit alignment rule to avoid CSS wider CSS applying to legend content
+Fix for https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/7843 */
+.leaflet .legend.leaflet-control {
+  text-align: left;
+}