CSS link navigation browser compatibility

I have a horizontal linked list (implemented to look like tabs) that I'm using for a site navigation.

I checked my page toda开发者_JS百科y on my phone, and it didn't display correctly on Opera or in Internet Explorer. I checked Internet Explorer 6 when I got home, and it appears the same way.

HTML

<div id="navcontainer"><ul>
    <li><a href="">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="">Projects</a></li>
    <li><a href="" id="current">Resume</a></li>
    <li><a href="">Referances</a></li>
    <li><a href="">Fun</a></li>
</ul></div>

CSS

#navcontainer>ul{
    text-align: center;
    padding: 3px 0;
}

#navcontainer>ul>li {
    display: inline;
}

#navcontainer>ul>li>a {
    padding: 3px 0.5em;
    margin-left: 3px;
    border: 1px solid #778;
    border-bottom: none;
    background: #bbd;
}

#navcontainer>ul>li>a:hover {
    background-color: #369;
}

#navcontainer>ul>li>a#current {
    background: #fff;
    border-bottom: 1px solid white;
}

What is the best way to change this so it is more browser compliant?

IE6 doesn't like display:inline very much. Try float:left on both your lis and your li a.

Also, IE6 does not support the > child selector.

For one, Internet Explorer 6 doesn't support the immediate child selector (>) that you are using.

For the li items you should set:

 float: left;
 display: inline;
 list-style-type: none;

So the problem here was this?

<div id="navcontainer"<ul>
 <li><a href="">Home</a></li>
 <li><a href="">Projects<a href="" id="current">Resume/a></li>
 <li><a href="">Referances<a href="">Fun

Which should be

<div id="navcontainer"><ul>
 <li><a href="">Home</a></li>
 <li><a href="">Projects<a href="" id="current">Resume/a></li>
 <li><a href="">Referances<a href="">Fun