How to use simple modal jquery plugin to get a dialog of table?
Here is snippet which can be helpful for you to add open the link in simple modal plugin

// Get the click action on link
$('.abc-modal').click(function() {

// Get href attribute.
  var href = jQuery(this).attr('href');

 /*  Three things here
 1. Append a div to the pop-up body
 2. Keep it hidden.      
 3. load the content on the link to the div(#content is the id from where you want to load the content to the pop-up) */

      $('&lt;div id="any-id-you-want"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;').hide().appendTo('body').load(href+' #content', function(){
        }).modal({
        overlayClose: true, 
        autoResize: true, 
        minHeight: 600, 
        minWidth:800 , 
        opacity:80,
        overlayCss: {
          backgroundColor:"black"
        }
      });
      return false;
    });