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How to check href of an element found using xpath contains text()

I'm trying to find an element by the text it contains, then check that that element also has a link to a particular place. I'm using selenium/java.
I'm trying to find elements by text when I can to minimise how many changes I will need to make if the UI is updated (reduce test maintenance costs).
I've tried the following, but the assert fails as the getAttribute ends up being null.
WebElement newsHeadlineTemplate = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'News Headline')]"));
Assert.assertEquals("Template not clickable", "/news/create/new", newsHeadlineTemplate.getAttribute("href"));
HTML for element I'm trying to find/use:
<div class="columns">
<div class="column is-one-third">
<p>News Headline</p>
</div>
</div>
I'm still fairly new to selenium so any help is very much appreciated.

Your XPath selector is a little bit wrong, you're matching <p> tag and you need to match the <a> tag which is the following-sibling for the <p> tag.
So you need to amend your expression to look like:
//p[text()='News Headline']/following-sibling::a
More information:
XPath Tutorial
XPath Axes
XPath Operators & Functions

Dropdown based on user input

Guys could someone help me to find solution for following case:
I have to type several letters for username (actually typed whole username) and click on it to choose. It looks as on screenshot which I added below.
Here is how it looks like on a page:
Added part
<div class="show-temp">
<div class="medium-12 column">
<div id="suggestionBox" class="search-input">
<label for="viewUser">Search user names</label>
<input type="text" autocomplete="off" id="viewUser" onkeydown="javascript: if(event.keyCode == 13 ){ userStats.HideContent();userStats.ApplyFilters(this); return false;}" placeholder="Search user names..">
I tried with this code:
Select dropdown2 = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id=\"viewUser\"]")));
dropdown2.selectByVisibleText("Zoran21");
Thread.sleep(2000);
And I got this error:
Element should have been "select" but was "input"
Please assist and thank you in advance

The Select class only works with <select> tags ,it's does not work for other Tags LIke (Input,div).if you want to work with DropDown first check the DoM ,how it's build .if its contain <select> Tag then Use Select Class other wise following the Below Approach.
The Error Indicates to you , DropDown Build With <Input> Tag so Your unable to Select Options By using Select Class
use below approach may be it's help you.
String searchUserXpath ="....";
String optionXpath ="----"
driver.findElement(By.xpath(searchUserXpath )).sendKeys(entersearchOptionValue totally /partially );
//for example option value is HYderabad ,you HYd Then takes xpath of
// HyderabaOPtion...
driver.findElement(By.xpath(optionXpath )).click();

WebElement in selenium select with attr

I like to select this tag in the page using selenium in java
<input class="btn btn-success addReportBtn" type="submit" />
here is what I've tried so far:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[type=submit]"));
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("//input[#type='submit']"));
I get these exception for both of them respectively:
org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"input[type=submit]"}
org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: invalid selector: An invalid or illegal selector was specified
if I use Jsoup I can easily get it by doing:
System.out.println(document.select("input[type=submit]"));
what am I doing wrong?

As pointed out by #Jason, you are seriously mixing up XPath expression and CSS selector syntaxes. Correct expressions would be:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#type='submit']"));
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[type=submit]"));
Note that I would not only check the button type since usually there are multiple submit buttons on a page. There is that addReportBtn class I would rely the locator on:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input.addReportBtn"));
And that also gives a plus one to readability.

Try these:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#type='submit']"));
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[type='submit']"));

Springs <form:Checkboxes> with titles

My Question:
Is there a way i can add an infobox to a label which was created by the form:checkboxes-Tag? It should appear while hovering over the label (I know that the title attribute in html does exactly this).
Scenario:
I have a div with generated checkboxes. Those checkboxes have labels which are longer than the max-width of the containing div. As i don't want the width to be increased i thought displaying the name while hovering over the label would suffice. But as far as is know the checkboxes-Tag does not support a title-tag per item (items are computed at runtime and passed to the model).
It looks like this:
<fieldset>
<div id="selectedAccounts" style="overflow-y:scroll;overflow-x:hidden;" onchange="loadSthElse()">
<form:checkboxes path="selectedAccounts" items="${accounts}" delimiter="</br>/>
</div>
</fieldset>
As items i pass a Map<Integer,String> to fill values and labels.
The Spring Documentation says that the standard html attribute title is still available. But i can't see if or how it is used for every single item that is created as you only seem to define one title.
I tried something like
$("#selectedAccounts label").each(function(element) {
element.attr('title', element.name)
}
but it wouldn't work either.
Is there a way to make this work - Javascript, Jquery - or is the checkboxes-Tag poorly chosen?
Greetings,
Uwe

If you don't want to use title attribute (¿WHY?), you can define hover event in any hidden object you want. It also gives your code and HTML structure more readability.
HTML
<form:input type="checkbox" value="CHECKBOX1" checked="checked">
<div>all the info you want to show when hovering your checkbox</div>
CSS
input+div{display:none;}
input:hover+div{display:inline;}

I fixed this issue.
I simply added a title using dojo after generating the checkboxes.
<div id = "selectedCampaigns" onchange="loadAdSets()">
<form:checkboxes path="selectedCampaigns" multiple="true" items="${campaigns}" delimiter="<br/>"/>
<script type="text/javascript">
dojo.query("#selectedCampaigns label").forEach(function(element) {
dojo.setAttr(element,"title",element.innerHTML);
});
</script>
</div>
After setting the attribute to the innerHTML everything looks just fine.

Select by "name" in JSoup

I have multiple div's in a webpage URL that I have to parse which have the same class name but different names with no id's.
for eg.
<div class="answer" style="display: block;" name="yyy" oldblock="block" jQuery1317140119108="11">
and
<div class="answer" style="display: block;" name="xxx" oldblock="block" jQuery1317140119108="11">
I want to select data and parse from only one of the div's say namely (name="yyy") (the content inside the div's are <href> links which differ for each class.
I've looked up the selector syntax in the Jsoup webpage but can't get a way to work around it. Can you please help me with this or let me know if I'm missing something?

Use the [attributename=attributevalue] selector.
Elements xxxDivs = document.select("div.answer[name=xxx]");
// ...
Elements yyyDivs = document.select("div.answer[name=yyy]");
// ...