Adding a carriage return in an alert box

Hello
I have a user request to display this alert box in the format below:
Attention: The owner name has changed on this vessel.
Current Name: xxxxxxx:
New Name : yyyyyyy
Please confirm or deny that this is an owner change.
Confirm and Deny are the two buttons.
How can I insert a c arriage return at the end of each text line so the text looks this way in the alert box? I can get it to wrap but it doesn't look right
can the 'Confirm' and 'Deny' buttons be set to different colors?
Thanks!

Use chr(10).
For example:
v_alert := 'Attention: The owner name has changed on this vessel.' || chr(10) || 'Current Name: ' || etc....

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