Dynamically load information to Twitter Bootstrap modal

Question

Problem:

I would like to transfer by using jQuery a value in an link-attribute to PHP/SQL query.

HTML code:

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Final solution

HTML code:

    

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jQuery code:

$("a[data-toggle=modal]").click(function() 
{   
    var essay_id = $(this).attr('id');

    $.ajax({
        cache: false,
        type: 'POST',
        url: 'backend.php',
        data: 'EID='+essay_id,
        success: function(data) 
        {
            $('#myModal').show();
            $('#modalContent').show().html(data);
        }
    });
});