Trying to use contains selector within nested divs

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<div>
    <div>test</div>
</div>

$("div:contains('test')").css('display','none');

I know I am going to kick myself on this. The problem is that when this runs all divs are hidden due to nesting. How do I make it so that the parent div does not get hidden? I am limited to using 1.2.6

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