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HTML

<a href="#" class="contentEditLink" id="1">link 1</a><br/>
<a href="#" class="contentEditLink" id="2">link 2</a><br/>
<a href="#" class="contentEditLink" id="3">link 3</a><br/>

JavaScript

$('a.contentEditLink').click(function(){    
    var strContentID = $(this).attr('id');
    if( $('#contentEditDiv' + strContentID).length ) {
        $('#contentEditDiv' + strContentID).remove();
    }    
    $('#' + strContentID).after('<div id="contentEditDiv'+strContentID+'">Loading</div>');
    $('#contentEditDiv' + strContentID).load('/ajax_html_echo/');
});