Scrolling in a text entry field

I'm a newbie to ios, so bear with me. I was an Android power user for many years and recently decided to give ios a try.
I've got a simple question. When entering text in a field (say a user name to log into a site) if the text you've entered is too long to display all at once (like the first few letters get cutoff as you're typing) there is no way to scroll back to the beginning of the word. I like to spell check my entries sometimes and I've got no way to scroll back to the beginning of the word.
Here's an example. Open safari. Start typing in the URL box. Keep typing. Try to scroll back to the beginning of your entry and you can't.
Is this possible? Am I an idiot? :-p
I'm running 8.1 on a 5s.

Figured it out. Press and hold. duh

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