Passing Id to bootstrap modal popup - asp.net-mvc

Question

Here is working after tweak to JQuery:
$(.modalLink").click(function () {
var passedID = $(this).data('id');
$('#id').val(passedID);
$(".modal-body .hiddenid").val(passedID);
});
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How to capture the Id that I'm passing when the <a href click?
So I have a modal popup and when the user clicks I want to get the id of it when the user post the data.
View:
#using (Html.BeginForm("Employee", "Home", FormMethod.Post))
{
<div class="modal fade" id="myModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
<div class="modal-dialog">
<div class="modal-content">
<div class="modal-header">
<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button>
<h4 class="modal-title" id="myModalLabel">Record</h4>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="FirstName" class="control-label">First Name:</label>
#Html.Editor("FirstName", new { htmlAttributes = new { #class = "form-control" } })
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="LastName" class="control-label">Last Name:</label>
#Html.Editor("LastName", new { htmlAttributes = new { #class = "form-control" } })
</div>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
<button type="Submit" class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</button>
</div>
</div><!-- /.modal-content -->
</div><!-- /.modal-dialog -->
</div><!-- /.modal -->
}
Controller:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Employee(string id, string FirstName, string LastName)
{
//more work here..
return View("Index");
}

Answer 1

First you need a class or something you can use to reference the links:
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You need a hidden form field to hold the id that will be submitted with the form. So put this in your modal form:
#Html.Hidden("id", "", new { #class = "hiddenid" })
Then, just use some javascript. I assume jQuery would work fine for you?
$(document).on("click", ".modalLink", function () {
var passedID = $(this).data('id');
$(".modal-body .hiddenid").val(passedID);
});