diff --git a/apps/ui-tests-app/css/listview.ts b/apps/ui-tests-app/css/listview.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..22e3e31e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/ui-tests-app/css/listview.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+export function loaded(args) {
+    var items = [];
+    for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
+        items.push("name" + i);
+    }
+    args.object.bindingContext = { items: items };
+}
diff --git a/apps/ui-tests-app/css/listview.xml b/apps/ui-tests-app/css/listview.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7f47fcb1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/ui-tests-app/css/listview.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<Page loaded="loaded">
+  <ListView items="{{ items }}">
+    <ListView.itemTemplate>
+      <Label text="{{ $value }}" style="text-transform: uppercase; text-decoration: underline;" />
+    </ListView.itemTemplate>
+  </ListView>
+</Page>
diff --git a/ui/text-base/text-base-common.ts b/ui/text-base/text-base-common.ts
index 7536b642b..aaf801f44 100644
--- a/ui/text-base/text-base-common.ts
+++ b/ui/text-base/text-base-common.ts
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ export class TextBase extends view.View implements definition.TextBase, formatte
         if (this.formattedText) {
             this.formattedText.updateSpansBindingContext(newValue);
         }
+        
+        this.style._updateTextTransform();
+        this.style._updateTextDecoration();
     }
 
     get text(): string {