Trying to replace content in all anchors, but content not being replaced
<p>I am trying to replace all the content, depending on what it is, with a corresponding unicode character in all anchors that are descendants of the class nav ( .nav a ).</p>

<p>But this javascript / jQuery doesn't seem to be doing anything.</p>

<p>It is not showing any errors, just nothing is happening.</p>

<p>What am I doing wrong and how can I replace certain text with other certain text with javascript / jQuery ?</p>

<p>Here is the code:</p>

<pre><code>$(document).ready(function(){
    var navigationLinks = $('.nav a');
for(var i=0; i &lt; navigationLinks.length; i++){
    var thisLink = navigationLinks.eq(i);
    switch(thisLink.html()){
        case "About":
            thisLink.html().replace(/About/g,'&amp;#xe00f;');

        case "Work":
            thisLink.html().replace(/Work/g,'&amp;#xe010');

        case "CV":
            thisLink.html().replace(/CV/g,'&amp;#xe00c');

        case "Resume":
            thisLink.html().replace(/Resume/g,'&amp;#xe00d;');

        case "down":
            thisLink.html().replace(/down/g,'&amp;#xe00d;');

        case "Mail":
            thisLink.html().replace(/Mail/g,'&amp;#xe011;');

        case "Dribbble":
            thisLink.html().replace(/Dribbble/g,'&amp;#xe015;');

        case "GooglePlus":
            thisLink.html().replace(/GooglePlus/g,'&amp;#xe012;');

        case "Facebook":
            thisLink.html().replace(/Facebook/g,'&amp;#xe013;');

        case "Twitter":
            thisLink.html().replace(/Twitter/g,'&amp;#xe014');

        default:
            thisLink.html().replace(thisLink.html(),thisLink.html());
    }
}
});
</code></pre>

<p>And here is a live example of the code where I tried it, but it doesn't work.
The text inside the anchors inside the .nav class is still the original text and not the unicodes: <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/270523/help/replace/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/270523/help/replace/index.html</a></p>
