Bad Argument List in setTimeout?

I have a line in my html file as following:

<div id="selectBox" class="selectbox" onclick="$
('PostMark_Pa4440a_SelectCol_1').toggle();" onmouseout="setTimeout('$
('PostMark_Pa4440a_SelectCol_1').hide();', 10000);">Select...</div>

But because I have to use those single quotes as you see, I get the
following error.

Error: missing ) after argument list
Source Code:
setTimeout('$('PostMark_Pa4440a_SelectCol_1').hide ();', 10000);

I am not aware or any way around this, is there one? I am prototype.js
so that is why the syntax is being used?

Thanks

re: Bad Argument List in setTimeout?

On Mar 1, 11:45 pm, "M. Fisher" <mcfishe...@gmail.comwrote:Did you try to escape inner quotes?

\'PostMark_Pa4440a_SelectCol_1\'

re: Bad Argument List in setTimeout?

On Mar 1, 1:59 pm, "VK" <schools_r...@yahoo.comwrote:Excellent, that works, I did not realize it would accept that. Thanks
a bunch.