Modal window from within WordPress admin
Give the anchor a class of thickbox and make sure that the thickbox script is enqueued on your admin page using add_thickbox add_thickbox(); and <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/48514/your url” class=”thickbox”>click here</a> You can see what add_thickbox does here: http://hitchhackerguide.com/2011/02/11/add_thickbox/