Changing the background color in a ListView disables the highlight color

Question

I have a list of search results that appear in ListActivity. When I change the background color of the ListActivity elements, changing the background color of the first LinearLayout (parent), the OnClick highlighting stops working. Why is this and how can I make this selection still work when I change the background color of my items? On the side of the note, is it possible to change the color of this highlight? Thank.

My XML is something like this:

<LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout>
 <ImageView>
 <LinearLayout>
  <TextView>
  </TextView>
  <TextView>
  </TextView>
  <TextView>
  </TextView>
 </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

and my activity is this:

public class ResultsPage extends ListActivity {

Answer 1

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<ListView
    android:id="@android:id/list"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:drawSelectorOnTop="true"
/>