diff --git a/org-ql-view.el b/org-ql-view.el
index d771d129..14e76810 100644
--- a/org-ql-view.el
+++ b/org-ql-view.el
@@ -818,6 +818,19 @@ When opened, the link searches the buffer it's opened from."
 
 ;;;; Faces/properties
 
+(defalias 'org-ql-view--resolve-element-properties
+  ;; It would be preferable to define this as an inline function, but
+  ;; that would mean that users would have to recompile org-ql when
+  ;; upgrading to Org 9.7 or else get weird errors.
+  ;; TODO(someday): Define `org-ql-view--resolve-element-properties' as inline.
+  (if (version<= "9.7" org-version)
+      (lambda (node)
+        "Resolve NODE's properties using `org-element-properties-resolve'."
+        (with-no-warnings
+          ;; Silence warnings about `org-element-properties-resolve' being unresolved on earlier Org versions.
+          (org-element-properties-resolve node 'force-undefer)))
+    #'identity))
+
 (defun org-ql-view--format-element (element)
   ;; This essentially needs to do what `org-agenda-format-item' does,
   ;; which is a lot.  We are a long way from that, but it's a start.
@@ -827,6 +840,7 @@ returned by `org-element-parse-buffer'.  If ELEMENT is nil,
 return an empty string."
   (if (not element)
       ""
+    (setf element (org-ql-view--resolve-element-properties element))
     (let* ((properties (cadr element))
            ;; Remove the :parent property, which so bloats the size of
            ;; the properties list that it makes it essentially