Receiving "Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with" from Sauce Labs

Question

I am running a test against the following page: http://hulking-eland-1517.vagrantshare.com/casl/index.php?r=signup

and trying to select an element in the dropdown: $this->select($this->byId('card-exp-month'))->selectOptionByValue('12');

Whenever I run this against a local instance of selenium server, it works fine. When I run it in sauce labs (browserName=firefox, desiredCapabilities=[version=15, platform=Windows 2012]), I get the following exception:

PHPUnit_Extensions_Selenium2TestCase_WebDriverException: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with

Anyone have any idea what is happening or what I am doing wrong?

What does the screenshot captured by Saucelabs show? I am thinking you need to wait until visible. — Robbie Wareham, Jul 09 '14 at 07:25
Yes it works in local because it's faster than on the internet, so just add a little delay to let the webpage load — singe3, Jul 09 '14 at 07:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 09 '14 at 02:31

The exception details the issue clearly, it means your selected element is not in visible status (is hidden/disabled), you need to modify your script and take some needed action to get it in ready-state-to-receive-actions.

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Receiving "Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with" from Sauce Labs

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