Add lines above and below title [duplicate]

Question

Currently working on a document of type article. I'd like to add two horizontal lines above and below the title. I tried the following:

    \documentclass{article}
    \begin{document}

     \line(1,0){250}
     \title{A Title}
     \line(1,0){250}

     \author{FirstName LastName}
     \maketitle

    \clearpage
    \end{document} 

This does not give the desired effect, and splits the title page into multiple pages. Could you advise?

Answer 1

Try adding the line inside \titles argument:

\title{\line(1,0){250}\\A Title\\\line(1,0){250}}

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}


 \title{\line(1,0){250}\\A Title\\\line(1,0){250}}

 \author{FirstName LastName}
 \maketitle

\clearpage
\end{document}

Same with titling package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titling}
\begin{document}
\pretitle{%
\begin{center}\LARGE
\rule{3in}{0.4pt}\par
}
\posttitle{\par\rule{3in}{0.4pt}\end{center}\vskip 0.5em}

 \title{A Title}

 \author{FirstName LastName}
 \maketitle

\clearpage
\end{document}

Answer 2

Well you can custom easily your title page with the titlepage environment. Belong your MWE we can get:

Here is the code:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
\vspace*{\stretch{1}}
\rule{\linewidth}{1pt}
\begin{flushright}
\Huge A Title \\[14pt]
First Name Last Name
\end{flushright}
\rule{\linewidth}{2pt}
\vspace*{\stretch{2}}
\end{titlepage}

\end{document}

Notice the way of build the lines and their thickness.

You don't need more. You can build manually a title page with this environment. If you do that will be useful to use commands such as \vspace, \vspace*, \vfill, between others.