As some of you would of heard the hgroup
element is being removed from the HTML5 Specification. (For more info, see the W3C HTML Working Group\'s decision on reques
A couple of points to consider:
Even if the tag is removed from the HTML5 specification, it doesn't mean that it would stop working overnight. Browsers keep backwards compatibility for a long time (AFAIK most if not all browsers still render correctly!)
Even if the browsers would drop support overnight, they'd still render the page correctly because I don't think the hgroup tag adds any inherent styling and (modern) browsers are very lenient in allowing tags they don't recognize.
I might be reading the question wrong, but between the lines it sounds like you've been misusing the hgroup tag anyway. (It's not allowed to contain anything other than header elements.)
I don't see any problem in either dropping the tags completely or replacing them with divs.