String concatenation help required please...

I am totally confused at how to fix this... i want to output the value of 'this._hte' but instead it gets attached as a string literal..

jQuery(this).attr('href','\"<portlet:renderURL><portlet:param name=\"cmain\" value=\"+this._hte+\"></portlet:param> </portlet:renderURL>\"');

How can i concat the value of 'this._hte' with the rest of string??

Sulman.