"#_EVENTCATEGORIESIMAGES" as line of images

Ok so here is my issue the placeholder for “#_EVENTCATEGORIESIMAGES” creates a list of the images as it is supposed to. What I want instead of a list is all the images displayed in a single line. I am sure I am just missing something stupid here. The code for it being a list is shown below. If I simply remove all the list formatting from the code I still get a line break between the images. Suggestions??

<?php
/* @var $EM_Event EM_Event */
$count_cats = count($EM_Event->get_categories()->categories) > 0;
if( $count_cats > 0 ){
	$one_image = false;
	?>
	<ul class="event-categories-images">
		<?php foreach($EM_Event->get_categories() as $EM_Category): /* @var $EM_Category EM_Category */ ?>
			<?php if( $EM_Category->get_image_url() != '' ): ?>
			<li><?php echo $EM_Category->output("#_CATEGORYIMAGE"); $one_image = true; ?></li>
			<?php endif; ?>
		<?php endforeach; ?>
		<?php if (!$one_image): ?>
			<li><?php echo get_option ( 'dbem_no_categories_message' ); ?></li>
		<?php endif; ?>
	</ul>
	<?php
}else{
	echo get_option ( 'dbem_no_categories_message' );
}

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