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HTML

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>house</td>
        <td>garden</td>
        <td>house2</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>garden</td>
        <td>house</td>
        <td>house3</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>house3</td>
        <td>garden2</td>
        <td>garden</td>
    </tr>

CSS

.highlight { 
     color: yellow;   
}

JavaScript

$('table td').mouseover(function() {
    $('table td').removeClass('highlight')
    var text = $(this).text();
    $('table td').filter(function() { return $(this).text() == text; }).addClass('highlight');
})