I was looking for the onClick option to set the title and body of the modal based on the item in a list. T145's answer helped a lot, so I wanted to share how I used it.
Make sure the tag containing the JavaScript function is of type text/javascript to avoid conflicts:
<script type="text/javascript"> function showMyModalSetTitle(myTitle, myBodyHtml) {
/*
* '#myModayTitle' and '#myModalBody' refer to the 'id' of the HTML tags in
* the modal HTML code that hold the title and body respectively. These id's
* can be named anything, just make sure they are added as necessary.
*
*/
$('#myModalTitle').html(myTitle);
$('#myModalBody').html(myBodyHtml);
$('#myModal').modal('show');
}</script>
This function can now be called in the onClick method from inside an element such as a button:
<button type="button" onClick="javascript:showMyModalSetTitle('Some Title', 'Some body txt')"> Click Me! </button>