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HTML

<div id='link1'>
<a style="font-size:10pt; color: #008056" href="somelink">Name</a>
<b>;</b>
</div>

JavaScript

alert($('#link1').html().split(";").length - 1);

alert($('#link1').html().replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig,"").split(";").length - 1);