java - How to ignore element to click although not visible Selenium -

i working on selenium, while running java code tried access text box web page selenium.elementnotvisibleexception: element not visible , may not interacted command duration or timeout error.

html code text field :

<input type="text" name="totaltaxpercent" id="totaltaxpercent" value="19.00" class="smallinputfield rightalign" size="7" onblur="javascript:validatedecimal(this, 5)"> 

java code access text field :

public void setitemtaxvalue( string value){   //by writabletag = by.name("totaltaxpercent");   writabletag = by.xpath("//a[contains(@title,'override total tax percent')]");    this.sleep(3);   if (this.waitforexistence(writabletag,35))    {     this.textfieldsettext(writabletag, value);     clickonok ();     //             } else{     jlog.fail("unable find writable item taxdialog!");   }          } 

error tree :

[2015-07-14 20:18:34 pdt] switch frame: <top> [2015-07-14 20:19:22 pdt] setting textfield (by.name: totaltaxpercent) data: 10 [2015-07-14 20:19:24 pdt] screen capture: c:\source\selenium-main\selenium-vodafone\target\capture\screencapture_20150714201922308.jpg [2015-07-14 20:19:24 pdt] fail: org.openqa.selenium.elementnotvisibleexception: element not visible , may not interacted command duration or timeout: 40 milliseconds 

kindly advise , you

just catch exception:

try {   this.textfieldsettext(writabletag, value); } catch (elementnotvisibleexception e) {   jlog.fail("unable find writable item taxdialog!"); }