Once I removed them – the lightbox example works at it should.

I’ll see what happens with other examples as I work through the book.

All-in-all, in my opinion anyway, it’s a pretty good book to start learning jQuery.

Perhaps I’m missing something really obvious here…….

Checked the errata page but that doesn’t seem to make it work for me either.

Otherwise – since I’m new to jQuery – so far so good – I’m enjoying the book.

Unfortunately, the experience was soured by buggy code samples. The lightbox example in chapter 4 didn’t work straight out of the book. (This issue is covered on the book’s errata page)

Even more annoying was when I tried the simple modal dialog example from chapter 7. I downloaded the example source files from the sitepoint web site.
I found that the example doesn’t work in Chrome or IE8. The authors tout jQuery’s cross browser strengths in chapter 1 and then cripple their example code with Firefox/Firebug specific javascript and CSS.
Even after removing the Firebug console debug code, the modal dialog still won’t work in Chrome or IE8.

Well, I have the PDF anyway, so I’ll give it a read through. I know what you’re saying about reading stuff you’ve already picked up. Not only does it drive the stuff home, I find that more often than not, I’ll find one or two tidbits that I either missed before or never saw before.