Test Case Boilerplate

HTML

<table border='2'>
    <tr>
        <td>abc</td><td>def</td><td>xyz</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>abc</td><td>def</td><td>ghi</td>      
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>abc</td><td>xyz</td><td>ghi</td>      
    </tr>
</table>

JavaScript

alert($("td:[innerHTML='xyz']").length);