Problem: There are no separate elements for the tab content and the tab strip item. The TabViewItem element wraps both. This breaks css inheritance - the css is applied to both content and tab strip, but you can't override the css separately.

There are also some discrepancies between properties and between platforms:

• font-size and text-transform have native implementations on TabViewItem, color doesn't. There is however tab-text-color which applies color to all tab strip items.
• text-transform is for some reason not an inherited property
• font-size is hard coded for iOS TabViewItems to 10.

Proposed solution:
As a rule I think inherited css properties shouldn't have implementations on elements that are not separately represented in the mark up.

• Make text-transform inherited as per CSS spec.
• Remove font-size and text-transform from TabViewItem.
• Introduce new properties in their place on both TabView and TabViewItem tab-text-font-size and tab-text-transform.
• Optionally introduce more font properties, e.g. tab-text-font, tab-text-font-style, tab-text-font-family.

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