title: Cakephp textarea
body: <p>I am using CakePHP 2.2.3. I have a contact form with a model without a table but with validation rules.</p>
  
  <p>My problem is, how to tell CakePHP that the input type is textarea ? I could use <code>$this-&gt;Form-&gt;textarea()</code> but I've noticed that when I use it, it doesn't create the proper HTML to report validation errors back. If I use <code>$this-&gt;Form-&gt;input()</code> it just creates a normal input type text.</p>
  
  <p>It should create something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="input email required"&gt;&lt;input name="data[Quote][email]" required="1" type="email" id="QuoteEmail"/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but instead it creates something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;textarea name="data[Quote][company_description]" id="QuoteCompanyDescription"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>notice the absence of <code>&lt;div class="input email required"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</code>, which I assume is the DOM element CakePHP uses to inject the validation error.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to know what's the best way to achieve this. </p>