Thanks everyone for your input, they were all good ideas, but in the end, the issue ended up being an IDE issue with codeLobster. I removed the src=”” line from <script type="text/javascript" src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34077625/js/jquery.js"></script>
and let the intellisense fill in the src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34077625/js/jquery.js” I finally got it to see the script but I was still getting the deletefile was undefined, well I guess that is case sensitive as my function was deleteFile and my onclick was deletefile, I sear I had changed that but…, once I changed them to be the same case my delete worked.
solved $.ajax to call php function not working