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Elements in a div start a new line

I need your help with the HTML / CSS problem: I am creating a very simple web page that has a navigation bar consisting of "ul" containing five "li". "Ul" has a width of 900px and inside the "div". Each "li" has a width of 900/5 = 180 pixels. Despite this, these elements create a new line.

This is what I expect (more or less): enter image description here

Here is what I get : enter image description here

This is HTML :

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>My First Website</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/reset.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/princstyle.css">
</head>

<body>
<div id="container">
    <div id="fascia">
        <h1>My First Website</h1>
    </div>
    <hr class="menu">
    <div id="nav">
        <ul>
            <li><a href="img/a.jpg">About</a></li>
            <li><a href="img/b.jpg">Photo</a></li>
            <li><a href="img/c.jpg">News</a></li>
            <li><a href="img/d.jpg">Video</a></li>
            <li><a href="img/e.jpg">Contacts</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
    <hr class="menu">
</div>

</body>
</html>

This is my first CSS file (standard CSS reset file):

html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,
article, aside, canvas, details, embed, 
figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, 
menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary,
time, mark, audio, video {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    border: 0;
    font-size: 100%;
    font: inherit;
    vertical-align: baseline;
}
/* HTML5 display-role reset for older browsers */
article, aside, details, figcaption, figure, 
footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section {
    display: block;
}
body {
    line-height: 1;
}
ol, ul {
    list-style: none;
}
blockquote, q {
    quotes: none;
}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
q:before, q:after {
    content: '';
    content: none;
}
table {
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border-spacing: 0;
}

This is my real CSS file :

@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */


body 
{
    background-color:#363636;
    background-image:url(../img/noise.png);
    height:100%;
    width:100%;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
}
#container
{
    position:relative;
    width:1000px;
    height:700px;
    margin:0 auto;
}

#fascia
{
    width:950px;
    padding:25px;
    font-size:4em;
    position:relative;

}

html
{
    height:100%;
}

h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,p{
    color:#FFF;
    font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
    text-align:center;
}

hr.menu
{
    margin:0;
}

#nav
{
    width:100%;
    position:relative;
}

#nav ul 
{
    width:900px;
    margin:0 auto;
}

#nav ul li
{
    display:inline-block;
}


#nav ul li a
{
    display:block;
    width:180px;
    font-weight:bold;
    color:#FFF;
    text-transform:uppercase;
    text-align:center;
    text-decoration:none;
    padding:5px 0;
}


#nav ul li a:hover
{
    background-color:#C09;
}

Sorry for the length of this post and thanks for any answers!

UPDATE: here is jsFiddle

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float:left display:inline-block.

#nav ul li
{
    display:inline-block;   <-- here
}
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, <li>, <a> width:100%;. . HTML .

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<div id="nav">
    <ul>
        <li><a href="img/a.jpg">About</a></li><li><a href="img/b.jpg">Photo</a></li><li><a href="img/c.jpg">News</a></li><li><a href="img/d.jpg">Video</a></li><li><a href="img/e.jpg">Contacts</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/QNb2j/1/

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