diff --git a/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/button/tappable-span-page.ts b/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/button/tappable-span-page.ts
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+import { Label } from "tns-core-modules/ui/label";
+import { EventData, TextBase } from "tns-core-modules/ui/text-base";
+import { Page } from "tns-core-modules/ui/page";
+
+export function foxTap(args: EventData) {
+    let page = <Page>(<any>args.object).page;
+    let foxTapped = page.getViewById<Label>("foxTapped");
+    foxTapped.visibility = "visible";
+
+    setTimeout(() => {
+        foxTapped.visibility = "hidden";
+    }, 1000);
+
+    console.log("foxTap");
+}
+
+export function dogTap(args: EventData) {
+    let page = <Page>(<any>args.object).page;
+    let dogTapped = page.getViewById<Label>("dogTapped");
+    dogTapped.visibility = "visible";
+
+    setTimeout(() => {
+        dogTapped.visibility = "hidden";
+    }, 1000);
+
+    console.log("dogTap");
+}
diff --git a/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/button/tappable-span-page.xml b/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/button/tappable-span-page.xml
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+<Page>
+  <StackLayout style="font-size: 50">
+    <Label automationText="formattedText" id="formattedText" textWrap="true" style="text-transform: capitalize;">
+      <Label.formattedText>
+        <FormattedString>
+          <FormattedString.spans>
+            <Span text="The quick brown " style="font-weight: bold; color: green;" />
+            <Span text="fox" style="font-weight: italic; color: green;" linkTap="foxTap"/>
+            <Span text=" jumps over the lazy " style="font-weight: bold; color: red;" />
+            <Span text="dog" style="font-weight: bold; color: blue;" linkTap="dogTap"/>
+            <Span text="." style="font-weight: bold; color: green;" />
+          </FormattedString.spans>
+        </FormattedString>
+      </Label.formattedText>
+    </Label>
+    <Label id="foxTapped" text="Fox tapped" visibility="hidden" color="green"/>
+    <Label id="dogTapped" text="Dog tapped" visibility="hidden" color="blue"/>
+  </StackLayout>
+</Page>
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